| Re: doctype not found? [message #173613 is a reply to message #173611] |
Wed, 20 April 2011 14:49   |
Beauregard T. Shagnas
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Beauregard T. Shagnasty repliedto hisself:
> geoff(at)invalid(dot)invalid wrote:
>> I have added the doctype etc info to the php at the top of the page
>> and now the page is centred in IE9 and the other browsers and W3C
>> HTML checker finds no errors.
>
> I just ran your page by the validator again, and it still says it can't
> find the doctype.
>
> Errors found while checking this document as HTML 4.01 Transitional!
> Result: 5 Errors, 5 warning(s)
>
> Maybe it is because of the blank line before it. Maybe it is because of
> the single-quote marks in your doctype. Remove the blank line in the
> resultant HTML and copy/use this (with double-quotes):
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> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
And I think I'll add this, which is still OT for a PHP group, but I see
it as important. In your CSS, you've assigned a font-size of 80% ...
that is below my aged eyes' ability. And you're using Verdana. Use 100%
for your base font, and drop the overly-large Verdana font.
body {
background-image: url(pattern.png) ;
font-size:80%; /* 62.5*/
font-family:verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;
line-height:1;
/*behavior: url(csshover2.htc);*/
}
line-height: 1 is less than normal. You should drop that.
Was 62.5%?? Were you reading about the horrible Clagnut method?
See: http://tekrider.net/html/fontsize.php
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