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need education on Doctype at top of header...
« on: September 06, 2010, 06:59:49 PM »
Have been messing with a jquery code and all the normal templates in 4images and most of the free ones I have played with start with on the header.html file...
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

The only way I could get the jquery script to look right was to change this to...
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<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

but when I changed this line then none of the templates looked correct, some white gaps can be seen above/below register area, ect...
I am assuming to use that line then all html codes have to start/end correctly like <div><p>paragraph</p></div>
Is that all I need to look at or is there more to it. w3 website is very cryptic and not very educational.

Thanks for any advice anyone can send my way...
Buddy Duke
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Re: need education on Doctype at top of header...
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2010, 07:59:56 PM »
hm .. jQuery also works with:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

my website works.


mfg Andi

edit: i hate "\" I have it all away..