Re: Any advantage of doctype?

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From: clintonG (csgallagher_at_REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com)
Date: 03/09/05


Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 18:07:56 -0600

Go to news://microsoft.public.frontpage.client and read " What is a DOCTYPE
and why is it screwing me up?" posted yesterday or the day before.

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<%= Clinton Gallagher
         METROmilwaukee "Regional Information Services"
         NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
         URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/
"Tommy Desperate" <TommyDesperate@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:591C4A47-602C-4F9D-ABF1-8B3DDE2A3091@microsoft.com...
> I created my website, www.hairloss-reversible.com, with FrontPage 2003. I
> notice that many websites have a doctype when I click on View Source. Many
> have this specific one: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
> Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
>
> Is there any advantage in putting a doctype at the top of my site in code
> view? If there is an advantage, how do I decide on which of the three or
more
> doctypes to choose from?


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