Topic: DOCTYPE, DHTML and mozilla ... (Page 1 of 1)

Ok! I'm starting to loose my patience...
I've build a great STRICT XHTML validated page, layouted it with clean and crispy CSS.
Looked perfect in both ie and mozilla 1.1

Now I started to make some DHTML manipulation. Works fine in IE, but MOZILLA didn't even frown!
No way to move my divs around...

But when I kick the doctype declaration, hey, presto, everything start moving around! (And some css rule
fall completely apart, besides that).

Can anyone here explain me why? I don't want to erase all doctype declaration to make my dhtml works.... any workaround?

Thanks!

OMERA: Welcome to the wonderful world of DOCTYPEs. Try bumping it down to XHTML transitional or making the DOCTYPE quirky - see this discussion and links:
www.gurusnetwork.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=16;t=000050

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Here's some reading material:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/doctype.asp
• http://evolt.org/article/Does_Netscape_6_Break_Your_Table_Layouts/17/4427/index.html
• http://www.evolt.org/article/New_DOCTYPE_sniffing_in_upcoming_Mozilla_releases/1/32271/index.html

OOOOOOK!!!!!!!!
So... First of all, I would like to say that I've spended the last hour reading endless post or articles on that famous doctype, and whenever someone complained about the problem in Javascript, sudden silence was made. Nevertheless...
I was getting angry with that s..t, everytime I was putting a doctype in netscape, my dhtml moving things were remaining in place. I suspected it was something to see with the quirk or standard mode, but... what????
FINALLY, I found what seems to be THE problem!
When I was assigning position to my div's, I was doing that:
object.style.left = 150;

Netscape refused in standard compliant mode.
Fact is that, in this mode, I MUST WRITE that!
object.style.left = "150px";

If you don't specifie the unity, nothing happens!
few!!!
Happy to dismissed that!

OMERA ~ romantic dreamer ~

mr.maX: Good links.

Omera: Thanks for passing that back - it might have solved a problem I was having

[edit: and I'd forgotten that there is an FAQ on this:
http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/460/ ]

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Speaking of this DOCTYPE - Hey Mr. Max - is the next version of HTML Beauty going to support the XHTML DOCTYPE? I try to use that DOCTYPE whenever I can, and that's my only real "issue" with HTML Beauty right now.

Other than that, awesome program, of course!

Yes, new version of HTML Beauty will fully support XHTML. In the meantime, you can modify current HTML template to include XHTML document type. Templates are stored in folder called "Templates" and it's located inside folder where HTML Beauty is installed. The file that you have to modify is called "default.html" (you can also create a new template and assign it as default template via program options)...

Right, but it doesn't write the correct tags. I've heavily customized my templates, but I still need the tags written correctly. Otherwise I have to manually change them....