Re: Regardless of the DOCTYPE I specify, always says "DOCTYPE Override in effect!" from David Dorward on 2013-05-09 (www-validator@w3.org from May 2013)

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 15:48:08 +0100
To: "Brian Barnett" <brian@calcxml.com>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <F56BE995-632A-4F2A-9E03-0A8AF1471F94@dorward.me.uk>

On 8 May 2013, at 18:51, Brian Barnett wrote:

> I can put any DOCTYPE declaration at the top of my page and I always 
> get the
> warning:
>
> "DOCTYPE Override in effect!"
>
> Why would it do this?

Because you told the validator to use a Doctype other than "(detect 
automatically)" in the validation options.

-- 
David Dorward
http://dorward.co.uk/

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