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HTML

Posted by Brian Abbott
Brian Abbott
648 Points

DOCTYPE question

I am working on a PHP tutorial that uses the following DOCTYPE in a template.

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

I'm guessing this DOCTYPE is for HTML 4? Should you declare a version with your DOCTYPE? My final question is there documentation on changes in HTML from version to version.

1 Answer

Ash Scott
Ash Scott
435 Points

Hi Brian Abbott,

With HTML5 being pretty much standard, with new HTML tags and such, it's recommended you use HTML5 doctype, which is very easy to remember:

<!DOCTYPE html>

Start using this and you'll be okay. The majority of frameworks for front end will use HTML5 doctype, as they make use of features like flexbox, semantic elements (nav, aside, main etc).

Any questions let me know!

Good luck, Ash