I am using JAT3 blank template with joomla 1.7.3 and my website currently is rendering in Quirks mode. Where can I change this to have it render as Standards Compliance Mode? Thanks.
I did find the following in the default.php file. It does not appear to be setting the doctype however since I am still defaulting in to Quirks mode.
// No direct access
defined(‘_JEXEC’) or die;
?>
<?php if ($this->isIE() && ($this->isRTL())) { ?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd”>
<?php } else { ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<?php } ?>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”<?php echo $this->language; ?>” lang=”<?php echo $this->language; ?>”>
Anyone have an idea on this? Defaulting to quirks mode is effecting the rendering in Internet Explorer (messing it up). Thanks.
<em>@ricosala 297962 wrote:</em><blockquote>Anyone have an idea on this? Defaulting to quirks mode is effecting the rendering in Internet Explorer (messing it up). Thanks.</blockquote>
Found a fix to this problem. Under template manager> templates >. there is a location to edit the main page template. I inserted the doctype commands in this area. All fixed.
hey thanks.. btw, what’s quirks mode actually ? what do we use it for ??
Quirks Mode or Standards Compliance modes are essentially a setting you determine for your site (via doctype) that establishes the rendering of your site on the users desktop. The complexity is driven by the various browsers which work diferently, firefox, chrome, safari and….the dreaded internet explorer (this one is a pain in and of itself). That is the extent I can help as I”m not the resident expert. here are a couple of links to review and learn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Type_Declaration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirks_mode
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