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Yehuda Shiran January 7, 2001
Detecting the Document Type
Tips: January 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The document object is very rich in Netscape 6, compared with Internet Explorer 5.x. One of the attributes is doctype. It is an object that holds the DOCTYPE tag information. Here is an example for the DOCTYPE statement:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
Internet Explorer does not support the doctype attribute of document. Get on Netscape 6 and see that document.doctype is an object.


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