Tue, 2004-05-11 19:47
Is there a known bug with some browsers (IE 6 and Mozilla 1.5) not reading the doctype declaration?
I coded a page with this dtd:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
The page displayed correctly in all the users PCs who tested it, except for one. Turns out that the computer (a new Sony Vaio notebook) was not reading the doctype properly. As a result padding was thrown off and the font size of all tabular data was blown up to 16 point. I removed the dtd, recoded the page for IE and Mozilla (in quirks mode - no dtd) and now the page renders the same on all PCs. My question really is how can I be certain that all PCs will render the doctype accordingly? If I cant be certain of this, what I can be certain of is not inserted a dtd, coding all the pages for "quirks" mode. Is this the reality, or is there a way to make certain that the dtd is loaded properly?
thanks,
lance
Tue, 2004-05-11 20:01
#1
Browser not reading doctype
Hi
Without seeing your full page code, it is difficult to say. Have you by any chance got the xml declaration before the doctype?
But, the Sony is just an XP machine with IE6, yes?
Trevor
Fri, 2004-05-28 18:58
#2
Browser not reading doctype
the doctype declaration was the first line of code, nothing was above it.
yes, it was a windows xp, IE 6 machine.
Sat, 2004-05-29 02:06
#3
Re: Browser not reading doctype
ljp099 wrote:
and the font size of all tabular data was blown up to 16 point.
This looks more like the css file was not being read.
Regards
Day