Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, 2nd ...

DBrowser Rendering ModesAs you saw in Chapter 7, the Document Type Declaration of the HTML or XHTML document canbe used to trigger different rendering modes in the browser, which in turn affect the CSS featuresavailable to you to use in browsers like IE 6 and IE 7. The following table outlines the differentdocument type declarations, and the rendering mode they invoke in the various browsers.❑❑❑S = Standards modeA = Almost standards modeQ = Quirks modeDoctype / Document IE6 IE7 FF O SPre HTML 4.0 DTD Q Q Q Q QHTML 4.0HTML 4.0 Transitional DTD without Q Q Q Q QDTD URLHTML 4.0 Transitional DTD with DTD URL S S Q S SHTML 4.0 Frameset DTD without DTD URL Q Q Q Q QHTML 4.0 Frameset DTD with DTD URL S S Q S QTable continued on following page