On 2/19/07, Gunlaug Sørtun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Beth Lee wrote: > > > What would be a more suitable doctype? A link to a good explanation > > would be helpful. (This is a web certification project, and the > > course instructs us to use this doctype, so I'm not sure I can change > > it on this website, but I'd like to know the pros and cons for the > > future, or maybe for arguing with the instructors :) .) > > You have standardized cards on your hand :-) > > Thus, 'XHTML 1.0 Strict' _might be_ a more suitable doctype, since we > *MAY* serve 'XHTML 1.0' as 'text/html' so all browsers understand it. > If your instructors also insists that all projects shall be rendered by > Internet Explorer, then 'HTML 4.01' Strict is an even better choice > since 'HTML 4.01' *SHOULD* always be served as 'text/html'. >
Thanks, Georg, for pointing me in the right direction. I've chosen XHTML 1.0Strict, which immediately solved a couple of problems in IE6. (When I e-mailed the instructor, he recommended XHTML 1.0 Strict serving text, even though the documentation in the online course instructs us to serve xml to XHTML 1.1. They need to update their documentation.) And now, thanks to you and the various articles I've read on the Internet about the subject, I have a better idea about doctypes and the serving of those doctypes. I figured out how to get the 3 boxes centered in IE5 -- by adding a "text-align: center" rule to the wrapping div. So that's fixed. And then I figured out how to get the vertical lines (side borders) of the navigation bar to work in IE5 by adding "height: 0;" -- this information from a css-discuss archived conversation. But there's extra space below the vertical lines now within the navigation bar, in IE5 only. Any ideas on how to fix this -- it's the broken box model again, right? -- or even *whether* to fix this? How pernickety to be about styling in older browers? Beth ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
