That's why I think users can just assign doctypes w/o understanding they Do control browser rendering, and they need to research the
options available and then "code" based on the std selected
PS
Jon
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| Yes, that's a good thing. Putting a full doctype will make IE6 behave like
| other modern browsers (ie put it into standards mode).
|
| There's a few quirks to work around though - by far the most common is this
| #someDiv {
| width: 298px;
| background-color: blue;
| border: 1px solid #000;
| padding: 50px;}
|
| IE5 and IE6 without a full doctype will render this box as 298px wide
| (padding and border are included inside the box). IE6 with a full doctype
| (and all other modern browsers) will render the box 400px wide (298 + 50 +
| 50 + 1 + 1). So to get the box 400px wide in IE 5 as well we can add a
| conditional comment -
| <!--[if IE 5]>
| <style>#someDiv {width: 400px;}</style>
| <![endif]-->
|
| Now the box renders the same in IE5 + and every other modern browser.
|
| It's much easier to design for IE6 with a full doctype and then use
| conditional comments to cover IE5 - you can then be sure of getting
| consistent results in all browsers. Of course you don't need a copy of IE5
| to test this, just change the comment to <!--[if gte IE 5]> take the doctype
| out and test in IE6 - the page will then render as it would in IE5
|
|
| Jon
| Microsoft MVP - FP
|
| | > But recognize IE 6 responds differently to CSS if your doctype includes
| the URL or not
| > See
| >
|
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp
| >
| > --
| >
| > _____________________________________________
| > SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
| > "Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
| > To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
| >
http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| > _____________________________________________
| >
| >
| | > | Hi Dan,
| > | in most cases you would use a loose doctype
| > | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
| > | "
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
| > |
| > | Easiest way is to modify your page template to include this doctype so
| you
| > | dont have to type it every time. Assuming youre using FP2003 open this
| file
| > | C:\Program Files\Microsoft
| > | Office\Templates\1033\PAGES11\normal.tem\normal.htm
| > | in FP add the doctype and save it. Now every time you add a new page it
| will
| > | have your doctype
| > | In FP2000/2002 the file you want is
| > | C:\Program Files\Microsoft
| Office\Templates\1033\Pages\normal.tem\normal.htm
| > |
| > | Jon
| > | Microsoft MVP - FP
| > |
| > |
| > | | > | > I don't know what DOCTYPE to use in my FP HTML. I'm guessing that the
| > | settings in Tools Page Options Authoring govern the DOCTYPE, but don't
| know
| > | how to use knowledge of those settings to tell me what DOCTYPE I should
| use.
| > | Can any kind soul please enlighten me?
| > | >
| > | > TIA
| > | >
| > | > Dan Ellis
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|
