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Sage · Feb 2, 2004, 09:50 PM

I've read that putting an XML declaration at the start of a document will trip IE6 into quirks mode, and I've read that a strict DTD will set it into standards mode, but what happens when those are combined? For example, my website currently has the following in its head:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

(I'm not sure if the html tag matters, but I added it in just in case)

Simon Mundy · Feb 2, 2004, 09:56 PM

Originally posted by Sage:
I've read that putting an XML declaration at the start of a document will trip IE6 into quirks mode, and I've read that a strict DTD will set it into standards mode, but what happens when those are combined? For example, my website currently has the following in its head:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

(I'm not sure if the html tag matters, but I added it in just in case)

I'm pretty sure the XML tag overrides the doctype in this instance and sets IE all giddy and non-compliant.

philzilla · Feb 2, 2004, 09:56 PM

if you use both, yer in quirks mode.

Sage · Feb 3, 2004, 12:03 AM

Okay, thanks!