Thread: Changing BV generated HTML - Is it possible?

BV automatically generates this HTML at the top of each page: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" I'm trying to implement a new calendar and booking system but there is a little bit of inconsistency with IE6 (older browser) and apparently it is displaying the calendar a bit larger than necessary. Apparently to get around this I have to change the HTML setting to the following: !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 > Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" but I have no idea if I can do this through BV. Can I and if so, how?

Thanks for taking the time to spell out your explanation in a format that I could understand Vasali but I think that you may have closed my thread off prematurely. The following was send to me today by the guy designing our new booking system. This, plus what I've read myself at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/, lead me to think that he may be right and BV is making a wee error. Feeling that that they had fobbed you off without looking into that doctype thing properly so I did a little more research. The bluevoda site http://www.bluevoda.com/create-website-html-css-w3c.htm talks about being w3c compliant however their doctype ISN'T actually compliant http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/lis...uppercase.html. Reading their first document implies they are trying to use a strict doctype which means there doctype declaration should actually be: as per http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html Bluevoda appears to inadvertantly be missing the second line which is not forcing strict compliance like they want but actually sending some browsers into quirks mode, hence IE6 may not be the only browser with issues and the display error I spotted may not be the only one. I could be wrong but so far am not finding any thing anywhere under w3c (the standards authority for html and css) to use the doctype they have - I believe they have an error.

The second line, is a URI to the doctype standards. Modern browsers don't actually need it as they are built with intrinsecal support.

IE6 instead needed the specification, thus the URI in the doctype.

However, you can't change that in BV.

Solution:

Download the page from the server.
Edit it to add the URI
Save and upload again.

Thanks for your help Vasili and Navaldesign. I used the Code Editor within the File Manager in cPanel to edit the code and it seems to have worked. There is only one page that needed to be changed, I'm leaving all the rest with the BV default. Thanks again. Just realised that I will have to remember to change this code manually everytime that I update this page as BV will overwrite it each time. An inconvenience but not a biggie.