It's been about 4 years since I did any web page creation. Upon my return to it, I see Doc Type is a new feature never used when I learned to code html.
I've looked at the W3C recommended list of doc types, tried using a few I thought were applicable and then ran HTML validator against my URL. Each time I got a message saying I had an invalid doctype.
I don't know what version of HTML I used and I do use CSS. Wouldn't this be XHTML? Can anyone given me a better way of determining which Doc Type fits my pages? My URL: http://www.juliekcohen.com
I hope I understood you correctly...you wanted to know if your page is HTML, XHTML, or something else? Well I looked at the source code for your web page and it says:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
So from my observation in appears to be XHTML! I hope that answered your question! If not....I'm really sorry!
My recommendation, for what it's worth, is to use the HTML 4.01 Strict doctype unless you have a specific reason to use something else (including XHTML). You can search these forums for lots of threads debating whether you should use XHTML now instead of HTML. So far no one has convinced me I should switch to XHTML if all I want to do is display an HTML page. Here are my default first four lines of every HTML page I create:
HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html lang='en'><head><META HTTP-EQUIV='Content-Type' CONTENT='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1'>
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~ Terry Pratchett in Nation
Thank you for the help. I have an additional question.
I added the code NogDog suggested below. Now I see a few pixels in height of red background color from my table at the bottom of my picture which I didn't have before. Do I just have to play around with HTML to avoid this now, or are some things unavoidable?
Two links within my site to compare and contrast the appearance of the picture are the Home and FAQs pages.
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