CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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stackOverFlew
stackOverFlew

Reputation: 1499

Quirks mode and doctypes

I'm developing a website: http://parkoura.tk/ashkon/blog.php

I've never tried to develop something complicated such as this, and due to my inexperience I ran into the following:

In quirks mode (Gecko/Webkit), when no DTD is declared, the webpage is rendered fine.

When I do add a doctype (4.1 transitional or HTML5), to get the page to start working in IE, the scroller on the right of the page stops working.

If there are no magic fixes, I will have to rebuild the site – but I was wondering if you had any suggestions for me before I do that.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 287

Answers (2)

Guffa
Guffa

Reputation: 700382

Start by validating the code, that will show you that there are some errors in the markup:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fparkoura.tk%2Fashkon%2Fblog.php&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

For example, you have used <header> instead of <head>, you have mismatched tags, you have escaped a lot of quotation marks.

Fixing the worst errors will probably make the page work with a doctype also.

Upvotes: 3

shanabus
shanabus

Reputation: 13115

Start here: validator.w3.org. Once you resolve those errors/warning, you should be in good shape. Focus on creating a valid HTML document and you shouldn't have to rebuild your site.

Upvotes: 2

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