Rob, Thanks. I have used the <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> since I have deprecated elements.
I have a question for everyone. Supposedly for HTML 4.01, the ending of an input tag is simply > but in w3school it show />. It does work either way, but which one is corrrect by syntax? Should ending tags matter in terms of it may or may not be rendered by the browser correctly? Son On Jul 18, 8:14 pm, RobG <robg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 18, 9:40 am, son <sco0...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Thank you Rob. > > > I can't remember what make me use the XHTML doctype, I thought I had > > some problem with running some jquery stuff, but not sure. > > > what is the ideal doctype the will work well with JQuery? > > jQuery is irrelevant, the best (and only) DOCTYPE to use on the web is > HTML 4.01 strict. You may use others for specific purposes, but they > are not suitable for a general web site. > > The vast majority if web sites using an XHTML DOCTYPE are served as > HTML because about 70% of web users are using IE, which does not > understand XHTML. > > <URL:http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml> > > -- > Rob
