Dave Goodchild wrote: > On 25/07/06, Christine Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> David kindly pointed to me that there was some incorrect mark-up at the >> beginning of my HTML doc - like so: >> >> >> <dl></dl><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" >> >> It looked very strange and I can't understand how the <dl></dl> bit of >> coding got there in the first place as I don't understand what it is anyway. >> >> I wonder whether anyone knows why this bit of code got there - I didn't >> put it there... but the problem is, when I take it out... the whole lay-out >> of my page is disturbed. So I really need to keep it there so my page >> displays properly. >> >> I really don't understand what it is. I would love some help on this, >> please. >> >> webpage: http://www.clairerich.co.uk/introduction.html >> > > Not sure, but why don't you use the xhtml transitional dtd. That html > 4.01dtd will throw browsers into quirks mode which may pollute > results. >
No it won't. It will only go into Quirks Mode if that doctype was incomplete, meaning it didn't include a URL to the DTD. It does, so the page renders in Standards. Christine, keep the same doctype, but remove the <dl></dl>, and fix any other invalid markup. Then deal with whatever problems come up. We'll help you through them. Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
