Posted by Jim Higson on 11/01/05 10:42

Attys Erebos wrote:

> Jim Higson wrote:
>> Attys Erebos wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello. I was recently doing a very simple website. I used a lot CSS;
>>>changing the font size for <h1> and <li>, positioning with an absolute
>>>value certain image,..
>>>
>>>I wrote the DTD only when the rest of the site was finished. But then,
>>>most of the CSS effects disappeared (but background-color for div still
>>>worked). This happened either with transitional or strict DTD.
>>
>>
>> Which DTD, disappeared in which browser? Examples of HTML/CSS that
>> disappeared?
>>
>>
>>>Why? Which DTD should I use? none?
>>
>>
>> Presumably because you put the browser out of quirks mode. There isn't
>> much information to go on though.
> I didn't explain it properly.
> Nothing disappeared, just didn't work.
> Examples of the CSS code that didn't work:
> font-size aplied to <h1> or <li>
> Browser: Mozilla firefox
> The DTDs I'm speaking about are those referred by the HTML 4.01
> specification: loose.dtd for transitional, and strict.dtd for strict.

Have you validated the CSS and HTML to find any typos etc? It is likely the
browser would be more tolerant to small mistakes in quirksmode, and this
might be why your rules worked without a DTD.

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