Re: Will not accept DOCTYPE statement

"Jukka K. Korpela" <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Sep 2014 14:52:50 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.org.w3c.validator
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

2014-09-21 12:36, Philip Taylor wrote:

>> <!-- Default Geneology Page -->
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
>> 		  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
>
>
> Suggest removing the leading comment and blank line, and making the
> DOCTYPE directive the first line of the file.

That’s advisable indeed, but it does not affect validation. Validators 
have no problems with such a comment, as it is permitted by the syntax. 
But some old browsers (while consuming XHTML as old HTML tag soup) will 
go to Quirks Mode if the DOCTYPE string is preceded by anything.

Yucca