[thelist] DOCTYPE Quirk in IE6

Mon Mar 4 13:49:00 CST 2002

Gregory,

> I have tried unsuccessfully to get my menu-driven DHTML/Javascript code to
> work in IE6.  It does not work if I have as my first line of code:
[...]

    That's a pretty broad explanation of your problem, which makes it near
impossible to offer anything more than a very broad response. What doesn't
work? Do you get script errors? Are things appearing in places where you
don't expect? Do you have a URL for people to view?

> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/loose.dtd">
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict file://EN>

    The short answer is that all of these doctype declarations trigger IE
6's so-called "standards-compliant" mode [1]...

> This DOES work.  Why?
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

    ...but this one doesn't.

James Aylard

1.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnie60/html/cssenhancements.asp#csse
nhancements_topic2