On Friday, September 24, 2010, 11:15:57 AM, Duncan Hill wrote: > Even a fully qualified transitional Doctype should trigger Standards Mode > in IE
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > and so give you the benefit of stability (predictability?) on your pages. --- Thanks for that. I had (mistakenly) assumed that it wasn't necessary to refer to the DTD explicitly and that each "flavour" of HTML was fully defined. BTW, switching my doctype declaration to 4.01 strict and then running the page through W3C's validator jogged my memory as to why I've stayed with the transitional standard: the target attribute of the anchor tag is deprecated and my pages often have 'target="_blank"' to open content in a new window without resorting to JavaScript. Thanks again, -- Geoff ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
