Hi again Lyn,
My apologies - you're right, it was the contact page which was missing the url in the doctype declaration, not the meeting page. A slip of the pen, which I hope you won't hold against me given that I was posting before 7:00am on a Sunday morning :-)
The pages will look the same in IE if they reference the same stylesheet *and* are being rendered in the same mode (hence the importance of the url being in or out). I suspect Opera is mimicking this behaviour for compatibility reasons. The link I gave you explains it well and it's a public document (no. 15 in a Google search for "html doctype"), you just weren't able to access it because somewhere along the line it's had a space introduced into it. Take that out and you won't have any problems.
All the best, Mike
On Sunday, October 24, 2004, at 09:57 AM, Lyn Patterson wrote:
Hi Mike
Not sure what you mean about no url in the doctype declaration on the meetings page. I am using <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> and it is there.
Sorry not to have been more specific - it was getting late ! It is only in IE and Opera that I have the problem (well, not really a problem, just a different rendering) , Firefox/Mozilla is fine.
Have just checked and I see that in this set of pages I have the FULL doctype ONLY on the meetings page which is why it is different from the rest. I meant to use the full doctype on all pages but it somehow got left off this set. So if I put it on all pages, no doubt they will all look the same. Thanks for bringing it up.
BTW, could not access your link- Directory Listing Denied message. Thanks again for the help.
Michael Allan wrote:
They look exactly the same to me here on Firefox, Lyn, but the meetings page doesn't have a url in the doctype declaration. I haven't been following this thread but, if you're viewing the pages in IE, the difference will be standards/quirks mode related:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/ doctype.asp
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