1 Topic by ConnyT (edited by ConnyT 2004-02-21 01:21)

  • From: Sweden
  • Registered: 2003-12-27
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Topic: DOCTYPE

Hi,
I need some advise:
What is the differnce between these two tags?
1. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
and
2. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401- … /loose.dtd">

I had some problems in the forum were the CSS was not incorporated properly ( or not to the full extent ). For instance, the colored scroll bars would not appear as I thought they would etc. I didn't really pay attention to it until i noticed that one menu item did show the page differently (and that menu item alone): "Admin" (tag 1).

I searched for the reason and found that the "DOCTYPE"-tag differed. I replaced tag 2 with 1 and voila'..

But, I would appreciate an explenation on why tag 1 works and not tag 2.

Tank's in advance

/Conny

2 Reply by Paul (edited by Paul 2004-02-21 03:18)

  • Paul
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  • Registered: 2003-08-13
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Re: DOCTYPE

The second doctype puts the browsers into standards compliance mode. The first puts the browers into quirks (backwards compatability) mode. You should be using the second one.