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genevieve2005

genevieve2005

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I have this doctype that I have put into my webpages - I was told that it is the correct one for my webpages, and it will probably help in my search engine placement efforts.

Is this the correct code?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "
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Looks valid to me.

You might want to check out this excellent thread on the topic: thread215-1042227

Cheers,
Jeff

 
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It will ensure that any CSS works correctly though

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Not necessarily, no.

It will ensure that the browser knows what specifications and DTD you are coding to, and will make some difference to the layout (i.e. take the DTD away and some layout will most likely change)... But it will not ensure that the browser renders your CSS "correctly" (i.e. to the letter of the specs) - as most browsers still have some rendering bugs.

Dan


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