2008/10/16 Majestic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have come across some pages that do not used a DocType so does that
> mean you don't need a Doctype on a page

The Doctype is mandatory in most versions of HTML.

Documents served as text/html with no Doctype trigger Quirks modes in
browsers which leads to much inconsistency and pain.

> and if so how do these pages
> work around this so that there page validates ?

In theory, another system of validation could be used - such as an XML schema.

-- 
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk><http://blog.dorward.me.uk>
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