I'll admit straight up that I've also asked this on Stack Overflow. Here's the deal:
I'm trying to set the doctype for my Skin to the html5 <!doctype html> doctype. However, I want to prevent the need to have to remember to do this for each variant I create. That is, my current structure was:
_default\Skins\MySkin\TwoColumnLayout.ascx
_default\Skins\MySkin\TwoColumnLayout.doctype.ascx
With the latter containing the contents:
<SkinDocType><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE html>]]></SkinDocType>
Now I want to create more ascx layouts, without having to remember to create a doctype file. So I followed DNN instructions I found here and here, creating this structure:
_default\Skins\MySkin\TwoColumnLayout.ascx
_default\Skins\MySkin\ThreeColumnLayout.ascx
_default\Skins\MySkin\Default.doctype.ascx (A)
_default\Skins\MySkin\MySkin.doctype.ascx (B)
_default\Skins\MySkin\MySkindoctype.ascx (C)
But none of them worked. I had (A) there as my gut-feeling attempt, option (B) from my first time reading the first bit of linked documentation, and (C) from the second time reading the documentation. However, none of them worked...
Of course I can repeat the doctype file for each view, but I'm bound to forget that one day. Is there a way to set the doctype once for all views in my skin?