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Re: Quick DOCTYPE Declaration Question

From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 19:06:16 -0400 (EDT)
To: "R. Derek Pattison" <rderekp@laughing-coyote.com>
cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0208171904470.20963-100000@localhost.localdomain> 

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, R. Derek Pattison wrote:

> I've just noticed that most folks on this list display !DOCTYPE like this:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>
> Does it matter if the URI for the DTD is on the second line or this whole
> tag is on one line, or do people just separate them for code readability?

Some people like to keep their lines less than 80 characters, but it
doesn't matter.

-- 
Liam Quinn
Received on Saturday, 17 August 2002 19:06:17 UTC

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