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4/18/2006 8:19 AM
 
Simone Chiaretta

www.piyosailing.com
Joined: 8/1/2005
Posts: 34
Just went crazy why I still had problem with the infamous box model problem with IE when I was designing my skin for DNN.
And I discovered why with DNN I still have this problem, that was supposed to be fixed in IE 6...
This box model problem has been fixed if the IE is running in "standard mode", but not if running in "quirks" mode...
And what does trigger IE to run in quirks mode instead of standard mode?
Mainly it's the lack of DocType definition, or a wrong doctype definition: a doctype definition is wrong if it is missing the URL of the DTD.
And DNN has that problem:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
instead of a more compliant
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
	http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd

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4/18/2006 9:11 PM
 
Nina M


www.berrydigital.com.au
Joined: 1/23/2004
Posts: 1961

You can modify the default.aspx file to reflect your preferred DocType.

It's in the root folder. 

Would that solve your problem?

Nina Meiers

Nina Meiers My Little Website
If it's on DNN, I fix, build, deploy, support,skin, host, design, consult, implement, integrate and done since 2003.
Who am I? Just a city chic, having a crack at organic berry farming.. and creating awesome websites.
 
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4/19/2006 4:09 AM
 
Simone Chiaretta

www.piyosailing.com
Joined: 8/1/2005
Posts: 34
Sure, that will fix that problem, as I already did after spending 3 days trying to understand that...
but since it's not a big issue fixing the bug on DNN side (just add the dtd url in the doctype definition), I think that it will be a good idea fixing that bug on a future of DNN... but something must be made to ensure that all the actual skin maker knows that bug fix and adjust their skin accordingly.

Simone
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
"Life is short, play hard"
 
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4/19/2006 7:51 AM
 
Nina M


www.berrydigital.com.au
Joined: 1/23/2004
Posts: 1961

I'm sure there is a reason. I don't know why and it's not stopped me from developing sites that work for the last couple of years, but I'll send them your best regards!

I would however, consider the impact on the menu - solpart in particular - but that's just my suggestion, but it seems like you've solved it, so that's good news.

Cheers

Nina Meiers

Nina Meiers My Little Website
If it's on DNN, I fix, build, deploy, support,skin, host, design, consult, implement, integrate and done since 2003.
Who am I? Just a city chic, having a crack at organic berry farming.. and creating awesome websites.
 
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4/19/2006 8:04 AM
 
Simone Chiaretta

www.piyosailing.com
Joined: 8/1/2005
Posts: 34
nina wrote
I'm sure there is a reason. I don't know why and it's not stopped me from developing sites that work for the last couple of years, but I'll send them your best regards!

Yes, of course they worked, as works mine now, but once in a time MS fixes a problem with IE, let's clean up our CSS code from the ugly hacks that we put into that stylesheets just because IE behaved in different way from the standard

nina wrote
I would however, consider the impact on the menu - solpart in particular - but that's just my suggestion, but it seems like you've solved it, so that's good news.

Also, not specifyng the url of the dtd is a formal error, too... Since DNN aims at being the best practice web portal framework, I think it should also be a best practice for HTML and CSS, too, as well as it is now for all the server side programming part.

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