- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 23:31:49 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Lam Thai <lamthai@yahoo.com>
- Cc: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Lam Thai wrote:
>
> Please help. Why does the following html codce behave
> differently w/ and w/o the first line, the one that
> contains <!DOCTYPE>?
> - W/O the first line, table bgcolor is "blue"
> -W the first line , it does not work!!!
>
> table {background-color: "blue"}
This is invalid CSS. With the DOCTYPE, you are triggering the browser's
"strict" mode, which correctly ignores invalid CSS.
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