doctype 4.01

anshul · December 27th, 2004, 06:12 AM

for HTML 4.01 pages we write
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

this is ok for all popular browsers except MSIE
for Internet Explorer, i've to truncate http://~ portion, otherwise page distorts.

what is correct?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
or previous?

meow · December 27th, 2004, 02:52 PM

anshul, if you don't post your truncated version, we can't know if it's correct or not. Why this need for us to guess all the time?

Anyway, I *guess* that you have stumbled on Quirks contra Standards Rendering Mode.
http://www.hut.fi/u/hsivonen/doctype.html

Maybe what's not correct is your HTML/CSS. But that would be another guess. Hmmmm.

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anshul · December 28th, 2004, 06:12 AM

As I read that url, I (did.) used a dtd url in 4.01 transitional doctype:

Quote:

quote:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

As I wrote, this makes html Web page bad in IE5 plus IE6 ( Why? ). If I truncate url pointing2dtd, i.e., 'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd' from doctype, page looks fine. Transitional documents having <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> ( no dtd url ) are validated OK by W3C html 4.01 validator and most people not use dtd url in doctype. I wanted to do that (atleast for transitional html), but IE (only) forbids me do that. Still, skipping dtd url for html 4.01 transitional documents, makes less sense.

Quote:

quote:http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/04/14/doctype/index.html?page=2

meow · December 28th, 2004, 06:24 AM

Probably because something you have in that page happens to render OK when IE is in Quirks Mode but not when it is in Standards Mode.

Another option is that you have stumbled on one of IE6's many bugs. Some of them go away when you force IE to emulate IE5.

If you show the page someone will probably be able to tell you exactly what and why. Without that we can keep guessing till doomsday.

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