Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration
In order to deal with both old tag soup written to old browser quirks and new standards-compliant pages, Mozilla (and Mozilla-based browsers), Mac IE 5, Windows IE 6, Safari, Opera 7 and Konqueror 3.2 have two main layout modes. In one mode the layout engine attempts to render conforming pages according the CSS and HTML recommendations. In the other mode the layout engine tries to mimic old browsers. In Mozilla these modes are known as “the Standards mode” and “the Quirks mode” respectively. In this document the same names are used also when referring to the modes of the other browsers.
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