Change DOCTYPE declaration

Hi Guys

I'm trying to change the DOCtype declaration. At the moment when I load foswiki in Internet Explorer 9, it sets the document standards to IE7 and knocks out some of the CSS styling I've put in. The doctype declaration is set to:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Which this site tells me is why it's setting the standards to IE7: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff955379(v=vs.85).aspx. Now I've found the htmldoctype setting in the foswiki.tmpl and changed it, but it's not taking effect on the site.

Can someone tell me why?

Thanks in advance.

-- WilliamMorgan - 21 Aug 2014

You are right. This should be

}%%TMPL:DEF{"htmldoctype"}%<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="%LANG%">%TMPL:END%%{

See also https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/src/index.html

Could you file a task against PatternSkin? Thanks.

-- MichaelDaum - 21 Aug 2014

Thanks Michael. That's done. Tasks.Item12993

I've changed the setting on my foswiki installation, but IE is still setting the document mode to IE7.

-- WilliamMorgan - 21 Aug 2014

Try adding

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">

to the head like demo'ed on the html5 boilerplate link above.

-- MichaelDaum - 21 Aug 2014

I tried that, but no luck. I'll try restarting apache. See if that helps.

-- WilliamMorgan - 21 Aug 2014

Still no luck with this, it's reverting to IE7 standards. Got no idea why!

-- WilliamMorgan - 04 Sep 2014

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