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HTML - Incorrect Doctype?
Do I have an incorrect doctype set for my new layout? www.bkriegtech.net
I have a huge amount of errors when I run the w3c validator... Similar TutorialsMy Website: http://tinyurl.com/ygspuc In IE7 the content is extended to far. As you can see in the attachment. Any help greatly appreciated. Hi everyone, I have a few pages that have an issue with the footer. The footer on this page is correct Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="language" content="english"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title>MESH Inc - About Us</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css"> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <img id="banner" src="images/topbanner.png" alt="top banner"> <ul id="top-nav"> <li><a href="mcad.html">mcad<span id="mcad"></span></a></li> <li><a href="niosh_project.html">niosh<span id="nios"></span></a></li> <li><a href="mcad.html">mcad<span id="moad"></span></a></li> <li><a href="mcad.html">mcad<span id="scad"></span></a></li> <li><a href="cloud_mapping.html">cloud<span id="clou"></span></a></li> <li><a href="cloud_mapping.html">cloud?<span id="what"></span></a></li> </ul> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="home.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="products.html">Products</a></li> <li><a href="services.html">Engineering Services</a></li> <li><a href="projects.html">Projects</a></li> <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li> <li><a href="contact_us.html">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a id="active" href="about_us.html">About Us</a></li> </ul> <div id="content"> <h1> Mr. Thomas Gruber</h1> <p>Mr. Thomas Gruber, MESH’s Director of Engineering has over 19 years experience in FTIR chemical sensor R&D. In this position he is responsible for managing project resources and directing the technical approaches.</p><br> <p>He is responsible for the design and development of the MCAD and CCTS products. This work includes embedded electronics, blackbody calibration devices, enclosure design, radiometric signal processing/signal modeling, quantitative detection, and tomographical mapping software.</p><br> <p>He developed the radiometric calibration, synthetic data, quantitative detection, and tomographic mapping software programs for MESH.</p><br> <p>Mr. Gruber is the Principle Investigator on both the Sensor Netting Algorithm SBIR and the Hyper-Spectral Imager SBIR.</p><br> <p><strong>Education:</strong></p> <p><br> MS Mechanical Engineering 1993, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX</p> <p>BS Mechanical Engineering 1991, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC</p> </div><!-- end #content --> <div id="footer"> <img id="footer" src="images/footer.gif" alt="footer"></div> </div><!-- end #container --> </body> </html> and this page is not correct... the footer comes up to the bottom of the content instead of staying on its fixed location... and I dont see anything in lines 90-100 that would cause this... any thoughts Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="language" content="english"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <title>MESH Inc - About Us</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/main.css"> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <img id="banner" src="images/topbanner.png" alt="top banner"> <ul id="top-nav"> <li><a href="mcad.html">mcad<span id="mcad"></span></a></li> <li><a href="niosh_project.html">niosh<span id="nios"></span></a></li> <li><a href="mcad.html">mcad<span id="moad"></span></a></li> <li><a href="mcad.html">mcad<span id="scad"></span></a></li> <li><a href="cloud_mapping.html">cloud<span id="clou"></span></a></li> <li><a href="cloud_mapping.html">cloud?<span id="what"></span></a></li> </ul> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="home.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="products.html">Products</a></li> <li><a href="services.html">Engineering Services</a></li> <li><a href="projects.html">Projects</a></li> <li><a href="publications.html">Publications</a></li> <li><a href="contact_us.html">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a id="active" href="about_us.html">About Us</a></li> </ul> <div id="content"> <h1> Mr. Ryan Fauth</h1> <p>Mr. Ryan Fauth has over 12 year experience in software engineering, all related to chemical sensing. He has developed the human interface to the MESH chemical sensing hardware, including the map display used by CCTS. He was responsible for interfacing MESH’s MCAD to JWARN.</p><br> <p>His has expertise in Embedded Operating Systems, Wireless Networking Software, and Software Design/Implementation.</p><br> <p>Mr. Fauth is responsible for managing maintenance and improvements to the Pentagon Force Protection Agency network of MCAD sensors, which protect the National Capital Region.</p><br> <p>He is the Lead Software Developer on the Sensor Netting Algorithm SBIR involving sensor interfacing, sensor data fusion and algorithm development.</p><br> <p><strong>Education:</strong></p><br> <p>BS Computer Science 1999, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE</p> <p></p><!-- end #content --> <div id="footer"> <img id="footer" src="images/footer.gif" alt="footer"></div> </div><!-- end #container --> </body> </html> I had a thread about my page a few months ago but I could not seem to find it. On my website under computer applications - utilities and drivers. I used an on page menu because of the page size. It is internal java script, or listed on the page. It functions but does not go where directed. I want the heading of the menu item at the top of the page. I followed the directions for the anchor but it doesn't always position correctly. The same occurs with CSS. How can I get it to position correctly because I will want to add more categories and more content and need it to position correctly with changes. Menu Utilities --- positions correctly Drivers --- positions in utilities Diagnostics --- positions with heading at bottom of page Registry cleaners --- positions in middle of diagnostics Registry tutorials --- positions in middle of Registry cleaners Computer help --- positions in middle of Registry tutorials Thank you for all your help falcon not sure if in the correct category of this forum Hi, I spent five and a half hours attempting to resolve this problem, but now I'm hoping that someone might be able to help me. If you visit http://www.justforyouwebsite.com/, you'll see that the menu tables on the left and right sidebars are meant to have shadows. The shadows are created by using 3x3 tables, with the right and bottom sides of the tables containing repeating background images. Unfortunately, however, the size of the table cells on the right isn't correct. The top-right cell should be 7 pixels high, with the middle right cell filling the space between the top right and bottom right cells. As it is now, the top right cell and the middle right cell appear to be split evenly, and no matter what style or HTML changes I make, there is no way to get the shadow to repeat all the way up the right side of the table. Does anyone have any ideas? The Smarty template code is below in case it might help someone, although I don't see how this could be a scripting problem. Code: <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" rowspan="2">
<table cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="VertMenuBorder">
<tr>
<td class="VertMenuTitle">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tr>
<td>{$link_begin}<img src="{$ImagesDir}/{if $dingbats ne ''}{$dingbats}{else}spacer.gif{/if}" class="VertMenuTitleIcon" alt="{$menu_title|escape}" />{$link_end}</td>
<td width="100%">{if $link_href}<a href="{$link_href}">{/if}<font class="VertMenuTitle">{$menu_title}</font>{if $link_href}</a>{/if}</td>
</tr></table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="VertMenuBox">
<table cellpadding="{$cellpadding|default:"5"}" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr><td>{$menu_content}<br /></td></tr>
</table>
</td></tr>
</table>
</td>
<td class="TabTopRight" height="7px"><div class="DivTabTopRight" height="7px"> </div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="TabRight" height="100%"><div class="DivTabRight"> </div></td>
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<td class="TabBottomLeft"><div class="DivTabBottomLeft"> </div></td>
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Thanks, -Steve When I add a doctype it completely ruins my whole page layout. How can i fix this? Without: it fits my whole page and looks nice. With doctype: it squishes everything to the top. Help please. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> this line seems to be at war with firefox. for some unknown reason my banner has a space between the lower body (it shouldn't). It is fine in IE and fine if the above line is not included. It seems to be adding some sort of padding into the table cells where the images are, somehow because of the domument type. ---------- Anyone have any solutions? LINK: http://uniden.zzl.org/ Again it is FINE in IE, but not if FF. HTML is Valid according to W3c Validator. Thanks in advance I have a doctype problem on my site which I cannot get rid of... Im using utf-8 have tried the below: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd"> --> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd"> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Many things are happening and I have read a lot of docs handling this... What do you suggest that I do? (Hmmm, - I need dansih characters... ) (In mysql working on the site I cannot see the correct characters... A workaround are being used...) Regards, Frank How improtant is the doctype tag? I am trying to teach myself html and am trying to figure out when to use what doctype. DOCTYPE basically tell the web browser what to expect when interpreting the html doc b/c html has been revised over the years, is that correct? Can someone please help me understand how to properly use the doctype tag and what is smart choice/ example of a specific doctype tag is and the reasoning behind why 'this' doctype tag is a smarter choice than an alternate doctype tag? Thank you! -Matt H. I didn't see an XML/XSL forum so I'm posting this here, maybe someone can help me. I'm trying something new, and it's giving me a headache. But hey it's all part of the process. Here's my site: HTML Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/layout/frontpage.xsl"?> <page lang="en_ca"> <frontpage/> </page> HTML Code: <?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"/>
<xsl:variable name="lang" select="/page/@lang"/>
<xsl:variable name="strs" select="document(concat('/strings/',$lang,'/strings.xml'))"/>
<xsl:template match="page">
<html>
<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="$strs/strs/str[@id='title']"/></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/css-default.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Test</h1>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Seems to work fine, but when I try to validate I get the following warning: No DOCTYPE found! Checking XML syntax only. It's clearly there. That's how other sites have done it and they validate... so what am I doing wrong? I'm trying to re-do and validate all my 100+ websites; this one is the most recent: http:// www.sticksite.com/cook/indexNEW.html and after "Tidy" cleaned it up I now have the very top looking like this which I know is not right: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> <!-- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> --> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 1 September 2005), see www.w3.org"> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Fast, nutritious meals</title> My pages are nothing fancy, I just want them to work. "Transitional" is fine; I'm not worried yet about "Strict." I'm validating at http://validator.w3.org/ Can one of you super HTML specialists please tell me how the top of my pages SHOULD look? Many thanks in advance! Well, this is how it started - I'm using XHTML strict but by accident I placed the doctype after the <html> tag. I've now finished the website and realised the error, so I moved it above <html>. The problem is that now in IE it looks like this: http://img187.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_350lo.jpg but in Firefox, it renders perfectly like this: http://img150.imagevenue.com/img.php..._122_842lo.jpg As you can see in IE it produces a big gap between the logo and the login form. Edit Figured it out - a very stupid mistake I was floating the logo to the left and the form to the right but I'd set the logo div's width at 25% and the form div's width at 100%. Just out of curiosity - anyone know why this error wouldn't show until the doctype was enforced and why it didn't show in firefox? im using the following doctype: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> however when you add a table in I.E. it is creating a space between the top of the table and where it is inserted... why is this? any ideas how to solve this? thanks J. Hi simple question. I'm setting a background color on a div and when I put the Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> the background color disappears? Whys this? Heres the css Code: #content {
width: 795px;
background-color: f9dc6e;
margin: 0px;
padding: 10px;
}
Thanks What is a doctype, ive seen it in almost every html file someones , i never use it and when i remove it it doesnt do anything. so whats the point of it? to me it just looks like its taking up space. I am totally confused about DOCTYPE code. My site does not have any doctype code on it and works fine, however been playing about with some jquery script and it wanted a doctype on my site to work. I have tried all the different doctypes listed on the w3 site and all make my site look strange and text/images all over the place the only way the site looks ok is without doctype. please advise the site in question is http://virtualhunterston.eu.org example test page with doctype added http://www.virtualhunterston.eu.org/...0-%20Copy1.htm This image only shows when the doctype is NOT declared, and I can't figure out why. Code: <img src="images/logo.jpg" alt="" /> And here is my doctype: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> I ran the page through the W3C validator and there's no errors.... I'm pulling my hair out because I don't understand why an image would disappear when the doctype is removed. Anybody know why? I'm trying to code a simple Table-based layout with some CSS. I validated my CSS fine, but when I went to validate my XHTML, I realized that I forgot my DOCTYPE declaration. When I added it in, my layout went completely screwy and I can't figure out why. If someone can help. The details I can offer up front are that I am trying to use XHTML Transitional, so I am using the following DOCTYPE: Code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> My layout is supposed to look like this: http://akito.clavis-sama.com/ But when I put in the DOCTYPE, it ends up like this: http://akito.clavis-sama.com/index2.html It's actually rather frustrating. Any clues/tips? [Also, yes I know there are some other Validation errors, I was going to use the validation to help me find them, but I can't get that far without a working DOCTYPE.] Hey, new to the forums, so please be kind I recently "inherited" a site that was created by someone else using a WYSIWYG, and am in the process of converting his table-based layout and other WYSIWYG monstrosities into lovely CSS and standards-compliant HTML. Only I'm having a slight problem. When I fixed the doctype (the one he used was incorrect), my right column got bumped all the way to the bottom of the page. It's definitely the doctype that caused it, but I'm not sure *why*. I'm using a three-column fixed-width CSS-based layout with a header and footer. The left column (which is the one having problems) and the footer are both navigation areas that use php (which I have zero experience with). The old version (with the working columns but the non-working doctype) can be found here, and the new version (with the non-working columns but the working doctype) can be found here. The stylesheet for both can be found here. I really appreciate any help, because I'm just pounding my head against a wall here. Thanks. Hello I have this weird problem with the following simple code HTML Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html lang='en' xml:lang='en' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' dir="ltr">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css">
<script src="includes/js/general.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
Fire fox and chrome thinks that everything is fine, On internet explorer the stylesheet is not working When I take off the DOCTYPE it works in explorer as well what is my problem ? Thanks Lior Hi folks, I have a simple centered web page that does not show the same in IE and Firefox. The problem just seems to be the first occurrence of position:relative which I used to center the page in a 'container'. Experts in this forum and others say I should fix this by using the right Doctype statement. But when I tries using any of the recommended Doctypes, the display was totally skewed in both IE and FF. You can see the normal page with no Doctype statement at: http://www.documents4u.com/Document-...Contactus.html It displays fine in IE but notice in FF the top horizontal bars are higher. When I put in a Doctype statement, everything is messed up in both IE and FF, as you can see in: http://www.documents4u.com/Document-...ontactus2.html Any suggestions on how I can fix this discrepancy? Is it my code or am I not using the right Doctype? |
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