Doctype And Older Versions Of HTML

ecchi · 2016-02-15, 03:54 PM

I was given the answer over the weekend. If anyone wants to know:

It was not the Javascript, it was "div id=" which was the problem. Apparently IE8 knows some HTML commands that were not instigated when it was created, but had been mooted. If it is not fed a HTML type, it sticks strictly to the HTML that was official when it was released (which I think was HTML 3). However it takes "!DOCTYPE html" to mean "follow all HTML notification you know" so using this gets it to accept a few later HTML commands.

2016-02-15, 03:54 PM	#6
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	I was given the answer over the weekend. If anyone wants to know: It was not the Javascript, it was "div id=" which was the problem. Apparently IE8 knows some HTML commands that were not instigated when it was created, but had been mooted. If it is not fed a HTML type, it sticks strictly to the HTML that was official when it was released (which I think was HTML 3). However it takes "!DOCTYPE html" to mean "follow all HTML notification you know" so using this gets it to accept a few later HTML commands.