Re: DTD transition tag - was web page centering thing in IE 6

by Thomas Rumley <trumley(at)softhome.net>

Date:	Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:45:19 -0400
To:	r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk
Cc:	r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk, hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
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The DTD he's using is a little different from what I use. Try this and see 
if it works.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">


Thomas
     mailto:trumley(at)softhome.net
     http://aboveboardlinks.com

At 09:58 AM 8/7/2002, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>Could someone with IE6 have a look at the question below which was emailed 
>to me by a
>collegue, but I wasn't able to help.  The pages are identical in every way 
>except for the
>commenting out of the doctype but in one of them: the text is centred when 
>the doctype is
>included when it shouldn't be.  Both work fine in Mozilla 1.1b+ and IE5.5.
>
>TIA,
>Raj.
>PS: please cc your reply to r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk since I'm on the 
>digest
>
>
>------- Forwarded message follows -------
>William,  Raj
>
>http://www.gla.ac.uk/is/index.shtml is fine but
>http://www.gla.ac.uk/is/test.shtml centres much text.   The only
>difference between the two pages is that the doctype declaration is
>commented out in index.shtml.     what's it all about.    Andy
>
>------- End of forwarded message -------
>
>--
>Rajnish Bhaskar, r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk
>http://lordofthemoon.com

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