[thelist] width:100% in IE 6 non-quirks mode (was: styling iframe)

Caren Spencer-Smith cspencersmith at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 11 23:34:01 CST 2003


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




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