On 27/10/05, matt andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. add a DOCTYPE to the very top of your HTML document, like this: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
I'd strongly advise against using XHTML (which has a large number of gotchas) and Transitional (which includes large numbers of elements and attributes that should not be used, and only a couple which might be useful ... and then only very rarely). <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> ... is almost certainly a better bet. Once you specify a Doctype, authors should make use of http://validator.w3.org/ to check that their document conforms to the spec (at least as far as it can - the DTD can't express the entire spec, but that doesn't stop the validator being a useful tool. (Any more then a spell checker isn't useful if it can't tell you you've used "their" when the correct word was "there"). -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk><http://blog.dorward.me.uk> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
