DOCTYPE Issues

Rushtrack · #1 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008, 06:49 AM

Hello.

Built a site using Dreamweaver simply as a text editor. The Doctype on the page is

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

When building I tested it through several different hosts and on many different browsers. It worked fine on all. The client wanted it set up through their Yahoo! store which has a built in editor (really really terribly annoying to work with) that automatically writes its own Doctype which is this

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

The fact that Yahoo!s auto doctype business does not specify the transitional.dtd is really ruining my day as it serves to basically have browsers interpret my code in an entirely new manner.

So I called yahoo!.And they said no we will not change that for you...to fix the problem just rebuild your site using tables rather than css!!

I dont want to do that.

Any thoughts as to how I might be able to call the .dtd document without doing so in the doctype declaration? or something?

Thanks

**htmlbasictutor** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008, 01:30 PM

Did you try ftping your copy of the website to their webspace?

I had a customer who used Yahoo hosting and use to ftp everything.

It validated, other than Yahoo's javascipt for their stats.

Rushtrack · #3 (**permalink**) 02-11-2008, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by htmlbasictutor

Did you try ftping your copy of the website to their webspace?

I had a customer who used Yahoo hosting and use to ftp everything.

It validated, other than Yahoo's javascipt for their stats.

I wish.

The store editor they use is a legacy and thus does not (for some reason) have the ability to ftp. Its a really brutal old system....

No big deal though as I have gotten them to change hosts and migrate into the new millenium a few years late..

Boogle · #4 (**permalink**) 02-12-2008, 12:19 AM

Couldn't you have appended the DOCTYPE on load using javascript?

Rushtrack · #5 (**permalink**) 02-12-2008, 06:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boogle

Couldn't you have appended the DOCTYPE on load using javascript?

Thats kind of what I was long windedly asking in the OP.

Is this possible?

Does anyone know how to do is?

Though I got away with switching hosts with this particular site...there are others tucked away in their yahoo legacy that may need attention in the future..

(Although I guess I could just build with the correct Doctype in the future

)

Boogle · #6 (**permalink**) 02-12-2008, 06:09 AM

Well strictly speaking we all should be building in XHTML anyway so it'd be good to fix around this!

i'm not sure about the code for this though. i will look into however because i'm slowly (very slowly!) building my JS knowledge and this sounds like something fun!

Boog's

Rushtrack · #7 (**permalink**) 02-12-2008, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boogle

Well strictly speaking we all should be building in XHTML anyway so it'd be good to fix around this!

i'm not sure about the code for this though. i will look into however because i'm slowly (very slowly!) building my JS knowledge and this sounds like something fun!

Boog's

Apparently Yahoo realized it was rather narrow minded of them to force people into using outdated doctypes so in their newer stores they allow you to change it to your pleasing...

I would appreciate any help you can offer around this.

Rush