DOCTYPE in VSD - Post ID 8715
Joan Brinton
Registered User
14 posts
What is the difference in DOCTYPES in VSD and what is the effect?
BillR
Ambassador
3,144 posts
Sorry your message was not answered earlier.
The current version of VSD has two doctypes available the default is transitional and the second is strict. Both are for HTML 4.01.
The differences are what html codes are allowed. If you look at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp you will notice that some codes are usable in strict, transitional, and frameset while other codes are only allowable in transitional and frameset.
Changing from transitional to strict could cause some of the code that is being used to not validate, and cause the web browsers to operate in quirks mode and your site may not display as you want it to display.
The current version of VSD has two doctypes available the default is transitional and the second is strict. Both are for HTML 4.01.
The differences are what html codes are allowed. If you look at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp you will notice that some codes are usable in strict, transitional, and frameset while other codes are only allowable in transitional and frameset.
Changing from transitional to strict could cause some of the code that is being used to not validate, and cause the web browsers to operate in quirks mode and your site may not display as you want it to display.
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