Is a DOCTYPE Declaration necessary in a "Frontpage 2003" created web page? If
so, why do FrontPage not automaticlly insert one? How do I decide which
DOCTYPE to use?

Thanks for any help
Raymond

Re: DTD by Kathleen

Kathleen
Sat Oct 28 20:28:37 CDT 2006

Is it necessary? No. Is it recommended? Yes. See:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/doctype/

If you are creating HTML pages, you'd want to use either:

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

or

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

if you're using frames.

Here's some more info:
http://www.spiderwebwoman.com/tutorials/doctypesolution.asp


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~ Kathleen Anderson
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"Raymond" <Raymond@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is a DOCTYPE Declaration necessary in a "Frontpage 2003" created web page?
> If
> so, why do FrontPage not automaticlly insert one? How do I decide which
> DOCTYPE to use?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Raymond