[thelist] Styles not showing up. Am I missing something?

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 7 16:38:03 CST 2003


--- Gijs van Tulder <evolt at gmx.net> wrote:
> It may sound weird, but it works if you just remove the
> XHTML-doctype. If
> you use no or a HTML 4.0 document type, it displays without
> problems in
> Mozilla 1.2. I had some similar problems when I changed my doctype
> to XHTML.
> Even IE 6 gave strange results when I changed the doctype, while
> everything
> else was the same. I then switched back to the HTML 4.0 doctype,
> and
> everything worked again.
>
> Maybe someone knows what's the cause of this strange behaviour.

What is happening is you are forcing IE into 'quirks' or 'standards'
mode depending on the DOCTYPE. Sometimes the XML declaration will
cause issues as well. I don't have all the info on hand, but I
guarantee the people over at css-discuss would know.

<http://www.css-discuss.org/>

Tom

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