For starters...http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp.
Ingo Chao wrote: > Hi > > can someone point me to a reference about rendering differences > between strict and transitional doctype? > > or: what would you expect? > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=utf-8;charset=utf-8" /> > > <title>strict vs. transitional</title> > > <style type="text/css"> > span { > background: red; > border: 1px solid black; > display: inline-block; > font-size: 12px; > padding: 0 2px; > } > em { > background: yellow; > display: inline-block; > font-style:normal; > height: 24px; > line-height:48px; > } > </style> > </head> > <body> > <div><span><em>Text</em></span></div> > </body> > </html> > > In Strict mode, the red span encloses the text - in transitional mode, > it dosn't. > Why? > > thanks, > Ingo > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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/ > > > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
