Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/09/05 20:24

Jim Scott wrote:
> How do I know which doctype to use?
> I use HTML 4.01 Transitional - dunno why - it just sort of happened.
> Is it right or wrong and how would I know?
> I have looked at various sites inc. W3C, but they don't make it clearer to
> me.
Look at your code, check the specs, especially what is deprecated and
obsolete

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/changes.html#h-A.3.1.2

If your do not have a real reason to do otherwise make your code HTML
4.01 strict, validate it to flag and fix errors.

http://validator.w3.org/

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Take care,

Jonathan
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