chimp1950 Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 been reading a book that says i should add this to my pages <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WC3//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-Transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> ive memorized this but sometimes i forget..i mean wtf..is it really nesasary to remember that? the urls are just long and dumb. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/56963-html/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
php_joe Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 I never use it. I just use <html> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/56963-html/#findComment-281369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zane Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 When you use a doctype it helps you to weed out the errors in your HTML and make it run more smoothly on other or all browsers if you have the patience. If you don't use one then your page may not look right or something really minuet that will bug the hell out of you. here's some reading material http://alistapart.com/stories/doctype/ Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/56963-html/#findComment-281386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stealth Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 ive been doing html for a long time and i dont even know that. i just use templates that i have made. for example: transitional_template.htm <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WC3//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-Transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title> </title> </head> <body> </body> </html> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/56963-html/#findComment-281400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonMariner Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 I use teh xhmlt 1.1 dtd - that and teh other strict doctypes force ie6 into standard compliant mode which reduces/negates the need for any css hacks to get a better cross browser response... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/56963-html/#findComment-281578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Flame Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 yea ive seen people use things like that in their html code but I never really knew what it was... Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/56963-html/#findComment-281687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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