Determine if the www-reader is in quirk mode?

Roland Bengtsson

Is it possible to determine if the www-reader is in quirk mode and
then do a printout on the status line at the bottom?

Jul 26 '05 #1

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Roland Bengtsson wrote:

Is it possible to determine if the www-reader is in quirk mode and
then do a printout on the status line at the bottom?

why not just use a strict doctype to make sure it doesnt happen in the
first place?

Jul 26 '05 #2

Roland Bengtsson

So the doctype is the only condition the www-reader look at when it
determine what mode it will go in?

For example is this an doctype that is OK?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

It validates ok on W3C for HTML V4.0.
But the page info in Firefox shows that this www-page is in quirk mode.
So it should be something wrong with the doctype or the rest of the
page. I don't know.

Look for yourself at www.cplusplus.nu.
The language is Swedish, but it doesn't matter for the html code.

Regards Roland
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Jul 26 '05 #3

Kevin Newman

Roland Bengtsson wrote:

So the doctype is the only condition the www-reader look at when it
determine what mode it will go in?

For example is this an doctype that is OK?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

It validates ok on W3C for HTML V4.0.
But the page info in Firefox shows that this www-page is in quirk mode.
So it should be something wrong with the doctype or the rest of the
page. I don't know.

Look for yourself at www.cplusplus.nu.
The language is Swedish, but it doesn't matter for the html code.

Regards Roland
*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***

This doesn't trigger standards mode in IE, you would need:

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

that can all be on one line too (with a space of course)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...ts/doctype.asp

Kevin N.

Jul 26 '05 #4

Martin Honnen

Roland Bengtsson wrote:

Is it possible to determine if the www-reader is in quirk mode and
then do a printout on the status line at the bottom?

IE 6 and Mozilla and Opera have a property
document.compatMode
which has the value 'BackCompat' when in quirks mode.

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Jul 27 '05 #5

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen

Martin Honnen <ma*******@yahoo.de> writes:

IE 6 and Mozilla and Opera have a property
document.compatMode
which has the value 'BackCompat' when in quirks mode.

It has the value "CSS1Compat" in standards mode, but different
browsers have different values for quirks mode.

IE and current Firefox have "BackCompat", but Opera uses "QuirksMode",
and I seem to remember previous versions of Mozilla doing the same.

So, to test for standards/non-standards mode, compare to "CSS1Compat".

/L
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