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Declare Your Document Type
3 If necessary, press to
create a new line above the
tag.
4 Type the appropriate
document type declaration.
● For XHTML Transitional, type
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD
XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/
TR/xhtml1/DTD/
xhtml1-transitional.
dtd”>.1 Open an HTML document.
2 Click at the top of your
document.
Declare Your Document Type
B
efore a browser can correctly render your HTML, it needs to know what version of the language
you are using. Both HTML and XHTML support three subsets or flavors: Strict, Transitional,and Frameset. You can set this version in your document by adding a document type declaration,
or DOCTYPE. This special code, which is not an HTML tag, goes at the very top of your document;
in fact, some browsers may render your page incorrectly if any code, including even a blank line,
appears before the DOCTYPE. Most modern sites use the Transitional version of XHTML.