Doctype change?

**Ramajpt** · 08 January 2011, 11:55 PM

I need to find out if it's possible to accomplish the following:

Confirm that the DOCTYPE tag on your web pages is <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>. If it is not, replace it with the following:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

As it looks like Xara does need to change to lower, is there anyway to accomplish this?

Any assistance on this would be infinitely appreciated. INFINITELY!!

**gwpriester** · 09 January 2011, 01:12 AM

Welcome to TalkGraphics

Can't answer this but stand by, someone may have an answer.

You can manually edit the HTML file but you will need to do this every time you make a change and republish your site.

**zaphodeist** · 09 January 2011, 01:12 AM

Xara doesn't need to change. Strict v Transitional: strict - anything deprecated (condemned) or made obsolete is not allowed - whereas, transitional allows deprecated elements in the markup. Because users may include deprecated code in placeholders, 'transitional' allows this.

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