I have created a webpage (http://www.snow4life.yum.pl) that was rendered properly in firefox, chrome etc. Of course dumb IE complicated things, because it enters quirk mode automatically, even though doctype is properly set and site goes through w3 validation (there is one error of missing some char, but file was cleared in hex editor). How can I stop ie from entering quirks mode ? Is there any way ?
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A:
Try killing all the whitespace before the DOCTYPE.
EDIT: There is an <feff> character which is a Unicode BOM signature at the start of the file. Since you may not have a text editor that can actually see that, try deleting the entire first line and paste over it with
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
And do NOT save the file with a BOM unicode signature. If this doesn't work, try a different text editor altogether.
meder
2010-10-16 17:26:56
this did'nt work :/
mat_o
2010-10-16 17:53:44
Your site is in quirks mode in Firefox, too. There still is a whitespace in front of the doctype.
Daniel
2010-10-16 17:57:21
damn it no matter what I paste there, ie still in quirks mode. Even with copied/pasted templates from w3c. wtf
mat_o
2010-10-16 19:20:06
the best part : I've saved main page of w3c.org and renamed it as my template. W3C validator shows 40 errors !! And of course - quirks mode.
mat_o
2010-10-16 19:29:56
I'm using vim now, clear templates from w3c and still the same. I'm just pasting the code to vim -> save'as -> base.html and then send it to server. That's all. Still w3c validator shows this stupid "Start tag expected, '<' not found" :/
mat_o
2010-10-16 19:39:09
okay I've placed it on different server and it works now. Can server somehow influence it ?
mat_o
2010-10-16 19:52:04
Are you using flat html or a template/CMS? What server?
meder
2010-10-16 19:58:36
i'm using it as a django template but currently there are no django specific tags, only pure html.
mat_o
2010-10-16 19:59:32