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Charley Kyd
I've just discovered that the DOCTYPE needs to start every page of html. I
searched Google Groups and found links to several places that listed various
doctypes. But that doesn't help much.
When I copied possible versions into my home page, all but one of them
caused the size of my fonts to increase by about 20%. (I use CSS
throughout.) The one exception was this doctype:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
However, the following doctype, which is very similar, also increased the
size of my html by 20% or so:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
Questions:
1. Why does the doctype specification change the size of my fonts?
2. Can anyone explain a practical way to figure out which doctype
specification is necessary?
3. Because all doctypes but one increase the size of my fonts, does that
mean that I will eventualy need to choose one of those doctypes and then
scale down my fonts?
I'm using tables, CSS, and no FrontPage-specific tools, like shared borders
or themes.
Thanks.
Charley
searched Google Groups and found links to several places that listed various
doctypes. But that doesn't help much.
When I copied possible versions into my home page, all but one of them
caused the size of my fonts to increase by about 20%. (I use CSS
throughout.) The one exception was this doctype:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
However, the following doctype, which is very similar, also increased the
size of my html by 20% or so:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
Questions:
1. Why does the doctype specification change the size of my fonts?
2. Can anyone explain a practical way to figure out which doctype
specification is necessary?
3. Because all doctypes but one increase the size of my fonts, does that
mean that I will eventualy need to choose one of those doctypes and then
scale down my fonts?
I'm using tables, CSS, and no FrontPage-specific tools, like shared borders
or themes.
Thanks.
Charley