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Yehuda Shiran July 27, 2001
The !DOCTYPE Switch
Tips: July 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Internet Explorer 6 provides full support of CSS Level 1. It includes margin, border, and padding on inline elements, first-letter and first-line functionality, and dotted and dashed borders. To force Internet Explorer to operate in such a strict mode, you must include the !DOCTYPE switch in the beginning of your document. Documents without the !DOCTYPE declaration behave as they did in previous versions, thereby maintaining backward compatibility.


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