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Pages don't display the same in Firefox and IE
This issue is caused because VisualSite Designer is not creating the correct doctype for your pages. You'll have to change:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//WC3//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
to
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
- Download our script here
- Unzip this file to your hard drive
- Upload the php file to your server with any FTP client (FreeFTP or DirectFTP)
- Login to your server using the same information you use to Upload in VisualSite Designer (Setting Up A Server Profile)
- Right-click each HTML file on the server and select "Permissions"
- Check the "Read" and "Write" boxes for the Owner, Group, and All User rows -- The value at the bottom should bet set to "666"
- Repeat the above step for each HTML file
- Enter the URL to the php script in your browser (IE or Firefox) -- it should be http://www.yourdomain.com/cc_doctype_fixer.php
- Click the "Fix Doctypes Now" button
NOTE! - This script should only be used with sites created with VisualSite Designer. It will reset the doctypes for ALL html files located in the same folder to the above Transitional doctype. If you have other HTML files with Strict or other doctypes, be sure to have a backup copy!
You may be able to run the script without changing the permissions (steps 5-7) but if you do receive an error message, this will correct it. Also, this will need to be run after each upload to keep correcting the doctype since it's automatically set by VisualSite Designer. Lastly, this is a temporary measure and we will have a new version of VisualSite Designer available soon.
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