Mokothemonkey Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I made my webpage, then at the end added the <!doc> tag at the top. It messed up my webpage, so I changed it from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 4.1 It still messed some stuff, but fixed others. Can I just forget about the <!doc> tag altogether? I have seen many sites that just start with <html> thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 The doctype tells the browser how to render the page. For it to really work you need to have a valid markup. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//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> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I made my webpage, then at the end added the <!doc> tag at the top. It messed up my webpage, so I changed it from XHTML 1.0 to HTML 4.1 It still messed some stuff, but fixed others. Can I just forget about the <!doc> tag altogether? I have seen many sites that just start with <html> thanks! You do not need it. However, if you added the DOCTYPE and things started displaying incorrectly, it's very likely that your code is malformed. In other words, you coded something wrong, and with the strict standards of the DOCTYPE, it stands out. You should validate your webpage here to see what is wrong: http://validator.w3.org/ More info about DOCTYPE: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_DOCTYPE.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokothemonkey Posted August 25, 2009 Author Share Posted August 25, 2009 Thanks! The code isn't to badly wrong, it just had to add a <br /> and it was good. I will keep that link for when I post the website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 You should validate your webpage here to see what is wrong: http://validator.w3.org/ And it should say this when your done! http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%...ine&group=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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