Why do I need a doctype? (What does it do) [duplicate]

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2020-11-28 05:20

Browsers need at the least to render in what is known as standards mode. See John Resig's article on the html 5 doctype: http://ejohn.org/blog/html5-doctype/. Now if you want your browser to not use standards and render like its 1990 go ahead and not add anything and you will see floats and other now standard items not work correctly. If you want to have your page render/validate in accordance to a particular standard then you would want to add more to the doc type but it is not necessary.

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2020-11-28 05:23

You should have a DOCTYPE for ANY browser. It tells the browser how to interpret the html and css. This is why html4 and html5 have different definitions (as does xhtml). All very important for validation.

What IE will do is put the document into what it calls 'quirks mode' which basically ignores a whole heap of rules for how CSS should (by modern definitions) behave. Here is a good summary of the issue. It harks back to the bad old days of non-standardised CSS support

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Happy的楠姐

2020-11-28 05:24
The Doctype does two things.
1. It identifies which dialect of HTML you're using.
2. It controls whether the browsers uses "standards" or "quirks" mode to render the document.
If there is no doctype, or there's an unrecognized one, then it uses "quirks" mode and interprets the document as best it can. If there IS a doctype, and it recognizes it, then it follows the standards. The results of the rendering can vary depending on how it interprets the document.
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星月不相逢

2020-11-28 05:25

Why?

Why specify a doctype? Because it defines which version of (X)HTML your document is actually using, and this is a critical piece of information needed by some tools processing the document.

For example, specifying the doctype of your document allows you to use tools such as the Markup Validator to check the syntax of your (X)HTML. Such tools won't be able to work if they do not know what kind of document you are using.

But the most important thing is that with most families of browsers, a doctype declaration will make a lot of guessing unnecessary, and will thus trigger a "standard" rendering mode.

Source: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/Doctype

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南笙

2020-11-28 05:27

All browsers need the doctype. Without the DOCTYPE you are forcing the browsers to render in Quirks Mode.

However, DOCTYPE was only partially used by the browsers in determining dialect and parsing, even though that was the purpose. This is why HTML5 has reduced the DOCTYPE to simply:

<!DOCTYPE html>

2.2. The DOCTYPE

The HTML syntax of HTML5 requires a DOCTYPE to be specified to ensure that the browser renders the page in standards mode. The DOCTYPE has no other purpose and is therefore optional for XML. Documents with an XML media type are always handled in standards mode. [DOCTYPE]

The DOCTYPE declaration is <!DOCTYPE html> and is case-insensitive in the HTML syntax. DOCTYPEs from earlier versions of HTML were longer because the HTML language was SGML-based and therefore required a reference to a DTD. With HTML5 this is no longer the case and the DOCTYPE is only needed to enable standards mode for documents written using the HTML syntax. Browsers already do this for <!DOCTYPE html>.

Source: HTML5 differences from HTML4: DOCTYPE

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一生所求

2020-11-28 05:28

From W3Schools.com:

The doctype declaration is not an HTML tag; it is an instruction to the web browser about what version of the markup language the page is written in.

There are a handful of different doctypes, and changing them can drastically change how your page renders.

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