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Guest_imported · Jan 26, 2002

Hi,

I am new at HTML so I check the HTML on a lot of websites that I visit. I have seen a few without the <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">.

I thought this was mandatory. Does anyone have any imput on this?

Thanks in advance,

Daniel

RISTMO · Jan 26, 2002

It's not mandatory. At least, I've never had to use it. I think it's something put in there when you use a program to make your page. I always delete it to make things simpler.

Ovatvvon · Jan 26, 2002

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> declares the document type as HTML ver. 4.0 as set stadards by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C -

http://www.w3.org).

By haveing in your document code, it's one less thing the server has to figure out, therefore loading your page that much faster for the user.

You actually are required to put very little in basic HTML. You don't HAVE to declare <html> or <head> or <body>. You can get much more specific with your document if you do, and it speeds load time a bit for each bit more specific you get, however, you could simple put:

<table border=1>
<tr>
<td>
This is my really really basic page!
</td>
</tr>
</table>

And it would display as a web page if given the .htm or .html file extension.

Hope this clears things up for you. -Ovatvvon :-Q

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