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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 02/21/07 11:25
Nick Wedd wrote:
> It still has the same problem.
The "problem" is that including *any* DOCTYPE (there are a handful of
exceptions) will flip your browser out of "quirks mode". "Quirks Mode" is a
bad place to be, as it means that your web page will behave unpredictably
across different browsers.
You have clearly written your page in "quirks mode", relying on some
quirky behaviour in your browser -- Internet Explorer 5's broken box
model is one of the key features of quirks mode.
Now that you have added a DOCTYPE, your browser is no longer in quirks
mode, so the quirky behaviour you were relying on has gone.
The solution is to use a strict DOCTYPE:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
and adjust your CSS to get your site to display correctly.
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