css and doctype - HTML / CSS

Martin Nadoll

Hello,

i am using Dreamweaver MX 2004 to develop my php and html-sites.
Dreamweaver includes a doctype-definition when creating a new page, in my
case:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Now i needed to make a table with 100% height to show the content vertical
centered on my screen.
(or is there a solution with css to center content vertical on screen?)

<table id="myTable">....... </table>
i used a id referenced style for that:
#myTable { height:100%; }

didn't work.
When i remove the doctype-definition, everything works fine.

What is the reason for that?
Is a doctype definition important?
What happens, if i remove it?
Is there another definition i can use, to bring that style to work?

Because i'm not sure, this is the right place, i will ask the same question
in alt.html too.

Thanks for any help,
Martin Nadoll

Jul 21 '05 #1

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Steve Pugh

"Martin Nadoll" <ma****@nadoll.de> wrote:

Because i'm not sure, this is the right place, i will ask the same question
in alt.html too.

Answered in alt.html
See not there about not multiposting.

Steve

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Jul 21 '05 #2

Jim Moe

Martin Nadoll wrote:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Now i needed to make a table with 100% height to show the content vertical
centered on my screen.
(or is there a solution with css to center content vertical on screen?)

<table id="myTable">....... </table>
i used a id referenced style for that:
#myTable { height:100%; }

didn't work.
When i remove the doctype-definition, everything works fine.

What is the reason for that?
Is a doctype definition important?
What happens, if i remove it?
Is there another definition i can use, to bring that style to work?

See the topic "Changing doctype affects border and background" started
on June 8, 2005 in this newsgroup. Part of the discussion was about the
vagaries of how browsers handle DOCTYPEs and various references to related
articles.

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Jul 21 '05 #3

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