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What good is a DOC TYPE?
What good is a DOC TYPE? It works even if it doesn't have one of these and there isn't really much of a difference for the purpose for them, as far as I have found. Is there a place that talks about the need for a doc type in html? Thanks for the help, JF
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One of the most common...
This is one of the most commonly used DOC Types...
And here is a link to a page talking about DOC Types...Code:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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A DOCTYPE defines the version of HTML that's being used in the document. As such, it is vital in a correctly-formed HTML document. Most browsers will attempt to ignore that and carry on (rendering in Quirks mode), but this is nefariously unreliable (since it deliberately emulates bugs) and inconsistent amongst browsers. Besides, do you really want your page to have to be error-corrected by the browser before being parsed?
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Read Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration, by Henri Sivonen.Originally Posted by Freeman
Perhaps, though from a practical point of view, it might as well not be there at all. Not because document type declarations should be omitted - they shouldn't - but because a Transitional document type, without the system identifier (the URI), will cause many modern browsers to go into "Quirks" mode.
Either use a Strict document type, or include the system identifier. Preferably do both for any new documents. Also, HTML 4.01 is the current version of HTML; 4.0 was superseded a long time ago.
Mike
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Should a website use the same DOC type throughout or is it acceptable for different pages to have different DOC's?
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Thanks. It explains the different DOC types well, but still doesn't say if it is okay to switch types within a site or not..
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I think the main difference of the DOC types comes whenever you validate the page.
The validation is based on the DOC type of your page.
I don't think if we don't consider validation of (X)HTML then there won't be any practical problems with using different DOC types in different pages.
Elite Coders
Thanks for the advice!
I try to stay with trans 4.01 but you never know... if I use some XHTML it wont validate... not that many of my pages do at this point, but I am working on redoing them all right now and might as well try, LOL
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echo $result;
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To maintain consistent DOC Types in a site is the best strategy i think. So that can avoid any sort of confusing problem especially while validating a site, etc...
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