Text Alignment w/ IE9 in Standards-Mode

HTML & CSS
21

This works:
<!doctype this is junk >

OMIGOD my next page will absolutely have
<!doctype w00t>
if that really does work down to IE5 and FF2!

Making a typo in these will not always default to quirks mode but only when the typo nullifies one part and then the remaining part matches the requirements for quirks mode.

…this won’t [work]:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC what is this for “-//W3Cxxx/DTD rubbish HTML 4.01//EN” “Nonsense here http://www.w3.org/TxxxR/html4/strict.dtd”>

Hm, that makes sense: my double space was somewhere around the “EN” part, which would break the “4.01//EN” section.

22

I get quirks mode in FF4 and Op11. It’s standard for IE8.


<!doctype this is junk>
<html lang="en"><head>

  <title>Testing page</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

</head><body>

  <h1>Testing 123...</h1>

</body></html>
23

Aw, darn.

And I was gonna have such a cool doctype : (

24

Yes, I’m not sure what each is looking for exactly.

This will trigger standards mode in Firefox.


<!doctype html public "this is junk">