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rajbee
rajbee
6,657 Points
Posted by rajbee
rajbee
6,657 Points

Doctype in more detail

Often, doctype specifies the dtd to refer to. Is it necessary to do that or is it enough to say <!DOCTYPE html> instead of something like this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

3 Answers

Byron Stine
Byron Stine
4,877 Points
Byron Stine
Byron Stine
4,877 Points

The strict DOCTYPE you mentioned appears to be an old DOCTYPE from HTML 4.0 days back in 1999. Currently, we use HTML5 which is less strict version of HTML so it is best to use the DOCTYPE of <!DOCTYPE html> .

Durgaprasad Nagarkatte
Durgaprasad Nagarkatte
1,861 Points
Durgaprasad Nagarkatte
Durgaprasad Nagarkatte
1,861 Points

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration helps the browser to display a web page correctly. There are different document types on the web. To display a document correctly, the browser must know both type and version.

For more information visit this page : http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp

savan patel
savan patel
2,272 Points
savan patel
savan patel
2,272 Points

hi raghavbehera.

it simply describe you are using HTML5 ...u dont need to memorized this if you are using emmet plugin of any text editors.

thankyou