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Absolute positioning and doctype

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ice78991

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I have been setting the offsets of elements using javascript ( to move tables around the page) These elements are absolutely positioned.

If I include
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "
in my page then it does not work. If I remove it its fine. Is it ok to leave it out altogether?
 
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Not if you want your page to behave the same across all pages.

I suggest that you rewrite your script to accommodate the doctype, not remove the doctype to accomodate the script. If you're having problems perhaps you can post the relevant snippet of code so that we can assist you to make it work with the doctype.

-kaht

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