Problems with !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"

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When I include <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd&quot;&gt; in my header, my CSS files no longer show... they show up in code though, <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'display' %> becomes <link href="/stylesheets/display.css?1208424886" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />.

I heard Rails is hard-coded to only do XHTML, and that I might have to do some monkey patching. But I'm clueless as to how.

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Mister Blood Rails wrote:

When I include <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd&quot;&gt; in my header, my CSS files no longer show... they show up in code though, <%= stylesheet_link_tag 'display' %> becomes <link href="/stylesheets/display.css?1208424886" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />.

I heard Rails is hard-coded to only do XHTML, and that I might have to do some monkey patching. But I'm clueless as to how.

Here's a crazy idea: Use XHTML. Learning to properly nest tags and use self-closing tags isn't that big of a deal, really. It's easier than learning to use Ruby and Rails' DSL for web apps.

- -- Phillip Gawlowski Twitter: twitter.com/cynicalryan

Will I dream? ~ -- HAL-9000

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Turned out I had some stale XHTML tags around.

Anyway I've heard that future versions of HTML will not be based on HTML as opposed to XHTML, hence there's no point in switching.

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"Are you using XHTML? READ THIS: Beware of XHTML , http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml , Validity and Well-formedness , http://www.csarven.ca/interview-with-steven-pemberton&quot;

From freenode #html..

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Actually my problem didn't go away.

Considering giving http://dev.turnipspatch.com/trac/wiki/HTMLOutput a go...

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I'm using Apache+mod_rails, like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>   ServerName mysite.com   ServerAlias www.mysite.com   DocumentRoot /services/httpd/mysite.com/public   <Directory "/services/httpd/mysite.com/public">     Options FollowSymLinks     AllowOverride None     Order allow,deny     Allow from all   </Directory>   RailsBaseURI / </VirtualHost>