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David Harrison
06-05-2003, 01:07 PM
How do I know what to put after <!DOCTYPE...
Robert Wellock
06-05-2003, 01:15 PM
It depends upon what mark-up you are using: http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html I assume you are after HTML 4.01.
Charles
06-05-2003, 01:30 PM
If you are using HTML 3.2 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32) then use

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">

If you are using HTML 4.01 (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/) then use

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

unless you are using a HTML 3.2/HTML 4.01 Hybrid. Then use

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

But at the top of a frame set use

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

And note that those are for HTML and not XHTML.
spufi
06-05-2003, 04:04 PM
(points at sig)

:p
David Harrison
06-05-2003, 04:35 PM
As it happens I put a doctype on my page (I've not uploaded it yet) and I compared it to a doctype that I found via one of spufi's links (in another thread) and it turns out that the page I was on was the page that Robert Wellock put a link to. However I still can't validate the page, If you want the page source it's in a thread I created in the js forum called "All kindsa problems."
Do I need something else other than just a doctype.
I'm sorry if this is a simple question but I need to learn some how.
nkaisare
06-05-2003, 04:40 PM
You have an option of forcing a doctype in the validator (http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html) It will insert a doctype you select from the drop-down list.
spufi
06-05-2003, 06:16 PM
Originally posted by lavalamp
As it happens I put a doctype on my page (I've not uploaded it yet) and I compared it to a doctype that I found via one of spufi's links (in another thread) and it turns out that the page I was on was the page that Robert Wellock put a link to. However I still can't validate the page, If you want the page source it's in a thread I created in the js forum called "All kindsa problems."
Do I need something else other than just a doctype.
I'm sorry if this is a simple question but I need to learn some how.

You also need a meta tag showing what charset you want. You can add this one in.

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

I'm looking at your code you uploaded in the JavaScript section. I might not be able to answer your JavaScript question, but I might be able to aid in the other stuff.