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Taken From The Forum: Help & Support for DHTML Menu Version 5+
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Last Updated: Saturday July 14 2012 - 06:07:44

DOCTYPE affects menu paddings


Poster: perldev
Dated: Wednesday May 11 2005 - 21:59:28 BST

Example 1:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" >
<html lang="en">

Example 2:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">

In example 2, the menu padding doesn't work; but example 1 does. The only difference between 1 and 2 is the DOCTYPE.

How to fix the padding issue of example 2? Thanks in advance.


Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday May 12 2005 - 3:39:31 BST

Hi,

I'm assuming Netscape and Firefox since my IE looks the same in both. For some reason, and I don't know what that is, if you put px in your menu style code Netscape will start showing the padding.

Code:
padding="5px 10px 5px 10px";


The same is true in Firefox 1.0.2.

Ruth


Poster: perldev
Dated: Thursday May 12 2005 - 12:59:08 BST

Hmm. It does look different in IE.
Image


Poster: perldev
Dated: Thursday May 12 2005 - 13:02:43 BST

Ruth, you are right. When appending px, it works perfect. Thanks for your help!

Re: DOCTYPE


Poster: guythomas
Dated: Thursday February 19 2009 - 13:19:49 GMT

I find that specifing

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Has an affect on the springout menus. They persist and don't withdraw gracefully. I had not noticed a problem until I tried in IE 8.

Question:
Are there any known IE 8 incompatibilities?

Guy