> 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 The link didn't work because of the line break near the end (see just above this paragraph). The link ends with "doctype.asp", not "/objects/". Regards, Kenneth Feldman ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
