On Saturday 16 April 2011 16:19, David Hucklesby wrote: [snip] > Without a DOCTYPE, browsers are in quirks mode. Real browsers still obey > CSS rules except for a couple of things like box sizing. All versions of > IE will behave like IE 5.5 though. > > If you want to keep browsers in quirks mode, including IE 6 and 7, but > want IE 8 and 9 to be as standard as they can be, add the > X-UA-Compatible META element to the HEAD of your document, or configure > your server. >
The XML prolog (XHTML), or an SGML comment (HTML) forces quirks mode as well if you wish to force IE6 only. -- Michael ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
