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Where (and what type) to put doctype?

Nov 12, 2007, 7:37 AM

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Nov 12, 2007, 7:37 AM

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Where (and what type) to put doctype?

I've got a problem and potential solution, but welcome any advice from Links users.

I've had some problems displaying pages in IE7 - an example here:

http://www.ukprwire.com/...itioning_11895.shtml

In Safari and Opera this page displays fine, but in IE7 it is extra wiiiiiide, with unwanted white space in various places.

I've been told the problem may be fixed by adding a doctype, specifically this one:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

I added this to the 'detailed' template, but ALL the text on the page was then centred (centered) on IE7. Plus it was still wiiiiide!

Any ideas? Am I using the wrong doctype? Am I putting the doctype line in the wrong place?

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Where (and what type) to put doctype?	pepped	2793	Nov 12, 2007, 7:37 AM

Re: [pepped] Where (and what type) to put doctype?	Andy	2653	Nov 12, 2007, 8:03 AM

Re: [Andy] Where (and what type) to put doctype?	pepped	2646	Nov 12, 2007, 8:11 AM

Re: [pepped] Where (and what type) to put doctype?	Andy	2637	Nov 12, 2007, 8:13 AM

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