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    The HTML Doctype: Hello! HTML5 and CSS3

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    The document discusses the HTML doctype and how it has been simplified in HTML5. While HTML5 does not require a doctype for validation, browsers still need the minimal doctype of <!DOCTYPE HTML> to render pages in standards-compliant mode. Older HTML4 and XHTML doctypes contained more attributes but the HTML5 doctype is much shorter to trigger standards mode in legacy browsers.

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    The document discusses the HTML doctype and how it has been simplified in HTML5. While HTML5 does not require a doctype for validation, browsers still need the minimal doctype of <!DOCTYPE HTML> to render pages in standards-compliant mode. Older HTML4 and XHTML doctypes contained more attributes but the HTML5 doctype is much shorter to trigger standards mode in legacy browsers.

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    The HTML doctype

    An article from

    Hello! HTML5 and CSS3


    EARLY ACCESS EDITION

    Rob Crowther
    MEAP Release: September 2010
    Softbound print: Spring 2011 | 325 pages
    ISBN: 9781935182894

    This article is taken from the book Hello! HTML5 and CSS3. The author discusses doctype,
    which HTML5 doesn’t need for validation but still needs to be triggered for legacy browsers to
    render pages in standards-compliant mode.

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    The DOCTYPE declaration is somewhat archaic; it comes from SGML, which was used to define previous versions of
    HTML in terms of the language syntax. It appears as the first thing in an HTML document and serves two practical
    functions:

    ! It is used by HTML validation services to determine which version the document uses

    ! When browsers use the DOCTYPE to determine whether to use standards, almost standards, or quirks mode
    to render the document. (The short version is: standards mode is what you want.)

    HTML5 is defined in terms of its DOM representation after parsing, so it doesn’t need a DOCTYPE for validation, but
    we still want legacy browsers to render pages in standards-compliant mode. With this in mind the authors of the
    HTML5 spec worked out the minimal amount of markup required to trigger standards mode in browsers:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML>
    Compare this with similar declarations for HTML4 and XHTML1:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"


    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

    For Source Code, Sample Chapters, the Author Forum and other resources, go to
    http://www.manning.com/crowther/
    Summary
    In this article, you’ve learned that HTML5 doctype is much shorter, easier to type, and easier to remember.

    For Source Code, Sample Chapters, the Author Forum and other resources, go to
    http://www.manning.com/crowther/
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