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Using xhtml strict with silverstripe, problem with doctype


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CriaturaCreativaStudio

Community Member, 73 Posts

21 August 2008 at 8:05pm

Hello people,

I have a problem here: i developed a new website, based on xhtml strict and css.
Everything went well on the testing phase, the problem that i have now is that i see that, somehow, the CMS overwrittes my DOCTYPE Declaration:

I wanted to use this one:

<!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">

All my documents validated correctly, the problem is that the CMS populates this header:

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

Is there a way of using a xhtml strict DOCTYPE declaration for my html files?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you very much,

Eduardo

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hendy

Community Member, 2 Posts

21 August 2008 at 8:35pm

Add

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
above your DOCTYPE.

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

21 August 2008 at 10:04pm

Or turn ContentNegiotator off.. Have a read of our docs on doctypes on the html page - http://doc.silverstripe.com/doku.php?id=html#doctypes it will hopefully explain things

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CriaturaCreativaStudio

Community Member, 73 Posts

25 August 2008 at 3:45pm

thank you very much!

:)