DOCTYPE affects menu paddings

perldev · Post by **perldev** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:59 pm

Example 1:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
<html lang="en">

Example 2:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">

In example 2, the menu padding doesn't work; but example 1 does. The only difference between 1 and 2 is the DOCTYPE.

How to fix the padding issue of example 2? Thanks in advance.

Post by **Ruth** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:39 am

Hi,

I'm assuming Netscape and Firefox since my IE looks the same in both. For some reason, and I don't know what that is, if you put px in your menu style code Netscape will start showing the padding.

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padding="5px 10px 5px 10px";

The same is true in Firefox 1.0.2.

Ruth

perldev · Post by **perldev** » Thu May 12, 2005 12:59 pm

Hmm. It does look different in IE.

perldev · Post by **perldev** » Thu May 12, 2005 1:02 pm

Ruth, you are right. When appending px, it works perfect. Thanks for your help!

guythomas · Post by **guythomas** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:19 pm

I find that specifing

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Has an affect on the springout menus. They persist and don't withdraw gracefully. I had not noticed a problem until I tried in IE 8.

Question:
Are there any known IE 8 incompatibilities?

Guy

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