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Posted by Ian Davies on 05/18/06 03:42
Thanks for that
If my page is is a php dynamic page with html script where is the best place
for the
document type declaration to be put?
Presumably if the the php file contains no html then presumably I would not
need a document type declaration?
Ian
"Neredbojias" <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html> wrote in
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> To further the education of mankind, "Ian Davies"
> <iandan.dav@virgin.net> vouchsafed:
>
> > Hello
> > Thanks for the feedback
> > I sorted it out. I had created a dynamic page in dreamweaver from a
> > template and the following line is automatically placed at the top of
> > the html
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> >
> > All my other pages I have either not used dreamweaver to create them
> > or have deleted this line. On deleating the line the css style was
> > displayed properly.
> > Out of interest does anyone know what this line does exactly
> > Ian
> >
> > "Neredbojias" <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html>
> > wrote in message
> > news:Xns97C3493635FFFhttpwwwneredbojiasco@208.49.80.251...
> >> To further the education of mankind, "Ian Davies"
> >> <iandan.dav@virgin.net> vouchsafed:
> >>
> >> > I have a class in a style sheet to make text x-large.
> >> > However it behaves differently on different pages. The text is
> >> > large on one page, as it should be but not on the other even though
> >> > the text on both pages uses the same style
> >> >
> >> > anyone know why this happens?
>
> Get a load of this. That line puts browsers into "standards mode" with a
> somewhat-deprecated tag-set. The optimal method is to use the strict
> doctype which is similar but more accurate. Not including a doctype at
all
> goads browsers into "quirks mode", -a sort of haphazard way of functioning
> peculiar to the particular browser at hand. Ergo, all your other pages
are
> flawed and the one with the problem was acceptably correct.
>
> --
> Neredbojias
> Infinity has its limits.
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