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<DOCTYPE> does not matter!

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Post December 4th, 2008, 9:56 am

It does that with either HTML 4.01 or XHTML DTD's; the strict/transitional difference is the same.

You are essentially correct though. I'm just splitting hairs by finding the exception to the rule. These sorts of differences were far more pronounced a few years ago than they are now.

Also, it seems as if I don't know my own work. Those images I posted are of text within <code> tags (not in <ul>'s as I'd previously stated).
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Post December 4th, 2008, 9:56 am

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Post December 4th, 2008, 11:52 am

This is more out of curiousity than a desire to stop using a doctype (at least until IE8 makes them obsolete and all the other browsers follow course) but which browsers did you test that with?
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Post December 4th, 2008, 3:11 pm

The screengrabs were taken while viewing the page with Opera 9.62.

I done some testing later with other browsers too: Firefox 3 does the exact same thing as Opera. IE7 displays it like the transitional image regardless of what doctype is used.

The HTML 5 doctype looks interesting: <!DOCTYPE html>
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Post December 4th, 2008, 3:26 pm

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<!DOCTYPE html>


I bet a DOCTYPE like that is going to go over like the <script type> from <script language> transition.
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