Facebox doctype issue

**chechu** · 08-11-2008, 03:59 PM

1) Script Title: Facebox Image and Content Viewer

2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...ebox/index.htm

3) Describe problem: In the instructions, I need to place the following in the <head> section;

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

But my site has the following doctype, without using the Facebox:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

So I am confused where to put the different doctypes. Can I do this ?

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<head>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<script src="facefiles/jquery-1.2.2.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link href="facefiles/facebox.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script src="facefiles/facebox.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
      $('a[rel*=facebox]').facebox() 
    })
</script>

</head

**Nile** · 08-11-2008, 04:05 PM

No, I actually thing the page is wrong. I don't know what to do about it though, try it without there document type.

**boogyman** · 08-11-2008, 04:07 PM

the doctype needs to come before the <head>.

I believe if a second doctype is declared, the browser is put into quirks mode, but regardless, you should only have 1 doctype. deciding which doctype to use is the next step. If your page was written for XHTML than I would suggest using the XHTML doctype, however if it was written for HTML, then use the 4.01, which appears what you were using previous to this script.

**boogyman** · 08-11-2008, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by Nile

No, I actually thing the page is wrong. I don't know what to do about it though, try it without there document type.

deleting the doctype all together is not the solution, its finding which one to use and where to put it.

**chechu** · 08-11-2008, 05:19 PM

Thanks for your replies, but so the script doesn't work ?
I tried all possibilities with both, none and each doctype, and none works. Too bad, because it looks like a nice script !

**Nile** · 08-11-2008, 05:41 PM

Can we please see a link to your page. Its very confusing without it.

**chechu** · 08-11-2008, 06:40 PM

I placed it here: http://www.cecicasariego.com/decometvideo.html
You will see that in the bottom bar the yellow symbol comes up, saying there's an error on the page (probably because of the doctype). Then the pop-up shows, but without the video in it, and that's what this page is all about.