Re: Xhtml /CSS validator- umlaut problem

Beats me.

L.

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 cwdjrx@webtv.net wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:50:22 -0500 (CDT)
> From: cwdjrx@webtv.net
> To: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Xhtml /CSS validator- umlaut problem
> 
>   Thanks so much for your help. Use of "&auml;",etc., works. However
> here is another twist. If you change the "DOCTYPE" from xhtml 1.0 strict
> to html 4.01 strict, there is no problem! The CSS validator then gives
> no error messages. There is something about the DOCTYPE statement that
> causes the CSS validator to find errors in one case and not in the
> other. Since I have no idea how the CSS validator works, I can supply no
> meaningful comments about what is going on. The previously mentioned
> page now uses the 4.01 strict DOCTYPE until I have time to correct it
> for xhtml.
> 
> 

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Received on Thursday, 16 August 2001 16:04:11 UTC