Doreen Cowan wrote: > Could David / or someone / explain to me how the original DTD > (strict) put the file into quirksmode and why the second one > (transitional) corrects the problem ...or.. Perhaps someone can > direct me to a tutorial that will help me to understand.
The former was a pile of garbage surrounding an otherwise ok Strict doctype - which makes browsers choke and ignore the doctype completely, while the latter was a cleaned-up version with doctype etc in the right order that at least triggers standard mode in browsers. A Transitional doctype was/is probably better suited for a document that doesn't really live up to any standard, although an HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD and a clean-up of the mixed markup would have been better. For mode-triggering, see... <http://gutfeldt.ch/matthias/articles/doctypeswitch/table.html> regards Georg -- http://www.gunlaug.no ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
