Problem with Doctype and Fontsize

AndreasK67 · Post by **AndreasK67** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:09 am

Hello,

it's maybe a very simple problem, but I can' t find the reason.

When I define a Doytype like

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

the fontsize, which I have set in the menu_data, will be ignored.

What is the reason for this problem?

Thanks

Andreas

Post by **Ruth** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:32 am

Hi,

Which browser, which OS?

There could be a number of reasons. I use that doctype all the time when I'm doing testing for things in the forum and I never have a problem with the font size being ignored, so we really need to see the page to figure out just what might be causing that. We need the html, the css, the menu data info, so a page is the easiest way to get all of it.

Ruth

Migru · Post by **Migru** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:35 am

Hi

did you set

/* <![CDATA[ */ after the beginning script tag and /* ]]> */ before the </script> end tag?

I´m not an XHTML expert, but as much as I can find out, xhtml requires this. There might be some other preconditions for correct processing of xhtml. Cannot say anything without seeing the file.

Michael

Post by **John** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:22 pm

I use the following for all my pages...

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

Even without a CDATA everything works just fine (except it probably won't validate as a clean XHTML page).

Migru · Post by **Migru** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:27 pm

Hi John

good to know

Michael

Post by **John** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:32 pm

It's really wierd, Michael. I never was able to get that silly CDATA to work (it always gave me errors of one kind or another), so I just left it out and things started working.