If your page doesn't look like you think it should look, make sure you go through the following:

• Make sure that...
  • You close your "container" tags.
  • There is a slash "/" in your closing tags.
  • The tag names are spelled correctly.
  • There are both opening ( < ) and closing ( > ) angle brackets on all tags.
  • The tags are nested properly.
    • Incorrect: <A><B><C>.......</A></B></C>
       
    • Incorrect: <A><B><C>.......</A></C></B>
       
    • Correct: <A><B><C>.......</C></B></A>
  • You are closing a tag, not an attribute.
  • You have matching quote marks on values of attributes.
• Are you using the most current source?
• Which tag causes this behavior? What does this look like?
• Make sure you refresh your browser copy if you have made a repair to the code and come back to look at it again. In Internet Explorer, click the "Refresh" button. In Netscape, hold down the "Shift" key and click the "Reload" button.

As you become more experienced in building your pages, you should be able to better control what your pages looks like. Don't just chock a strange format up to a fluke. Figure out what's causing it and fix it !!!