Re: [WSG] meta http-equiv

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:53:11 -0700 

Jamie Mason wrote:

Hey,
just a quick question, is the below the correct markup for a transitional XHTML document?

I thought the meta http-equiv was text/xhtml, so I've lost confidence in the rest of the code being correct also.

Thanks a lot! Sorry to always be the one with the menial questions.




Jamie Mason: Design
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<!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";>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

The correct content type or MIME type for an XHTML document is "application/xhtml+xml".
Although I might add internet explorer doesn't understand it so you need to determine if the users browser accepts it.You can do this in PHP by writing:

<?php
if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT'],"application/xhtml+xml"))
   header("Content-type: application/xhtml+xml");
else
   header("Content-type: text/html");
?>

I know you can also do it in the htaccess file if your running apache, I can't remember how though.

With regards to <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=iso-8859-1" /> that really wont do anything, not anything i have seen. I guess it can't hurt to put it in though. As far as I know Internet Explorer wont care about that.

Marc.

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