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From: "Cheri Zuber" <>
Subject: RE: [FreeHelp] Re: Re: doctype
Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 14:54:10 -0400
In-Reply-To: <007401c563f7$8c75ced0$f452a20a@q5u5k5>


Need some help here. I use FrontPage. (I know what some of you think about
that, but that's not the point here.) I use tables to build my pages.

I wasn't having the margin problem, but there was no doctype declaration
built on my pages, and it's only recently I even knew it should be there.
You can see my entry page as listed below my signature.

I made a copy of my entry page and went to the suggested address and copied
the doctype statement into my HTML. Viewing in FrontPage, nothing changed.
However, when I viewed in IE and when I uploaded, it centers everything on
the page - and I mean everything. Here's a copy to view with the doctype
added in and no other changes made to my coding -
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~zuber/index_copy.htm

Then I set the alignment of each cell and I get this, which is about what I
originally had -
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~zuber/index_copy2.htm

Why does the HTML doctype code center everything? If I include a doctype
statement am I going to have to go to every cell in every table on every
page (I have over 100 pages) and set the cell alignment? If so, I may just
decide to ignore the doctype thing.


Cheri Zuber
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~zuber/


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hymer [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:39 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [FreeHelp] Re: Re: doctype

Have noticed pages of all experiencing margin issues seem to be lacking a
doctype element.
Go here: http://www.w3schools.com/quality/quality_elements.asp to read about
doctype.
Then go here and validate the local copy of your web page - the one on your
hard drive -
http://www.w3schools.com/site/site_validate.asp Fix everything it tells you
to and go from
there.
MichaelH

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom LaPorte [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 8:39 PM
To:
Subject: [FreeHelp] Re: Re: Sample page with 1 inch margins problem


Forgot to append the link to the page with a left margin of only one pixel.
Here it is

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bowlesfamily/cavan.htm


Tom LaPorte


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