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hi there, i was just wondering the difference between the doctypes, obviously I'd never use a frameset, but you have strict and transitional for xhtml or html and then you have a declaration for xhtml 1.1, but what situations I guess you can say would you use each of these doctypes? thanks for any help i appreciate it.
I recommend carefully reading Henri Sivonen's great page on this subject: Activating Browser Modes with Doctype
James
99.99% of the time new web pages should use the following doctype.
The other 0.01% of the time you'd useCode:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
Unless you know for certain that your page requires the second of these you should use the first.Code:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
The transitional doctypes are for old web pages that you haven't had time to fix properly yet. You'd only use them thr new pages added to a site using a template where the template hasn't been fixed yet.
You can't use XHTML 1.1 for web pages at all since Internet Explorer doesn't understand XHTML and XHTML 1.0 is the only XHTML version that can be served as HTML.
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