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WebArtz - The Web Design Forum » Web Designing & Coding » HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) » What is DOCTYPE?

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1 What is DOCTYPE? on Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:20 am

karna


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Why do we need to give a doctype? Cant browsers render properly without them?

2 Re: What is DOCTYPE? on Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:04 am

ankillien


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A doctype is telling the browser what type of code you have (HTML 4.01 Strict, HTML 4.01 Quirks Mode, XHTML 1.1 Strict, XHTML 1.1 Transitional, etc.) This will change the way the browser looks at the code, and how it renders it.

3 Re: What is DOCTYPE? on Thu Dec 31, 2009 7:32 pm

karna


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Thanks for the info ankillien. I wonder how come pages work properly even without a doctype?
I have seen many pages that have no doctype but they work properly in browser.

4 Re: What is DOCTYPE? on Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:45 am

ankillien


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If you don't have a doctype, it assumes HTML 4.01 Transitional.
And thats why it work properly for most pages Razz

5 Re: What is DOCTYPE? on Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:12 pm

bryanbell


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DocType is used to declare the type of document. You cannot say that DocType is an HTML or XML element. The declaration of DocType is always on very top of the documents.

For i.e.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

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6 Re: What is DOCTYPE? on Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:04 pm

lailagwb


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The <!DOCTYPE> declaration must be the very first thing in your HTML document, before the <html> tag.

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is not an HTML tag; it is an instruction to the web browser about what version of HTML the page is written in.

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration refers to a Document Type Definition (DTD). The DTD specifies the rules for the markup language, so that the browsers render the content correctly.

Tip: Always add the <!DOCTYPE> declaration to your HTML documents, so that the browser knows what type of document to expect.

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