Thank you Hunt, I hadn't even noticed I included that xml tag. I was playing around with SVG shapes half of year ago and I grabbed the Doctype from that document without thought. Thank you for the reminder.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lachlan Hunt Sent: February 13, 2006 9:48 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] [IE 6 Problem] -Container will not align centre to the page. Omen King wrote: > I have gone about creating this site for a class I have. > I have been using in the past XHTML 1.0 strict but the doctype we must use > is XHTML 1.1 Strict and it is giving me trouble. Firstly, XHTML 1.1 Strict doesn't exist, it's just XHTML 1.1. Don't confuse it with XHTML 1.0 Strict/Transitional/Frameset, there are no such variants for XHTML 1.1. Secondly, is your teacher aware of the fact that real world browsers don't support XHTML 1.1 properly, and that some don't support it at all? Most notably, no version of IE supports it - anyone who says (or tries to show) otherwise is lying. Perhaps my recent article would be an enlightening read for both you and your teacher. http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/12/xhtml-beginners > I have already know the problem is some kind of rule issue. I am researching > the problem currently but if anyone already knows the anwser it would be > greatly appericated. > > Please view this page both in IE 6 and Firefox. > > http://www.monsterboxproductions.com/hwk/thedigitallibary/index.html It appears to work in Firefox, IE7 and Opera just fine (though, it really only "works" in IE thinks it's receiving HTML, not XHTML - it's a MIME type issue). I don't have IE6 available to test in without uninstalling IE7. However, you need to be aware that using the XML declaration triggers quirks mode in IE6 (they fixed that bug in IE7) and this may be the cause of your immediate problem. Remove this line: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> To fix any other problems correctly, it requires using the correct MIME type. The easiest way is to change the file extension to .xht or .xhtml and add this line to your .htaccess file on your server (create it if you don't have one, Google for ".htaccess files" for more info) AddType application/xhtml+xml .xht .xhtml (After doing this, you won't be able to view it in IE, only Firefox, Opera and other descent modern browsers, but you will learn a valuable lesson none-the-less) -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
