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Choosing <DOCTYPE> ?? how to

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RodS2

RodS2

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Sep 11, 2007
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I've read up on doctypes but I honestly am not sure how do I know which doctype to choose. I have been validating my website w/ the w3c validator and the validator even says it cannot parse my site. My site can be found at




can anyone tell what the doctype is?
 
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You do not specify a doctype, therefore the validator assumes HTML 4.01 transitional. See: Choosing a DOCTYPE or just start your page like this for HTML 4.01 Transitional:
Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html...


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Here:

Basically a Doctype tells a browser how it should render a page. This makes the page look the same across all browsers.
The more common one to use is:
[red]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"[/red]

This means this page is to be rendered according to a set of rules defined in the doctype. Transitional doctypes give you a little morel leeway in the syntaxes you can use when creating the page.

I suggest using the doctype above. To use it just place it at the top of your document , it should be the very first thing in the page. even before the html opening tag.

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