Erik Mattheis wrote: > When I have a doctype of > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1- > transitional.dtd"> > Is that doctype putting IE 6 in quirks or non-quirks mode? > Is that doctype putting Mozilla in quirks or non-quirks mode? Do you have an XML declaration? If so, this may put IE 6 in quirks mode. see: http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/dom/dtype/dtype-grid.html http://www.hut.fi/~hsivonen/doctype.html > WTF am do I feel I have to use a doctype at all for if I just want > things to look like I want them in my target browsers? For the feeling of satisfaction when it works? Caren