Re: DOCTYPE related question

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Tom de Neef wrote:

> […]
> The production site has pages which start with
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><head <html
                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Not Valid.  (Is it so hard to copy and paste your code?)

> Here, the chart is produced but all elements of the chart fall on each
> other with FF and Chrome (IE8 does fine).
> 
> The function inserts nodes in the DOM. These nodes are created using:
> function newNode(x,y,width,height) {
>   var node = document.createElement('div');
>   node.style.position='absolute';
>   node.style.left = xOffset+x;
>   node.style.top = yOffset+y;
>   node.style.width = width;
>   node.style.height = height;
>   return node;
> }
> 
> (xOffset and yOffset are global to the encapsulating function.)
> It appears that the positioning and size info will not be interpreted with
> this Transitional XHTML 1.0.

The relevance of this question to ECMAScript-based scripting is zero.  It is 
a *CSS* issue.  Read the CSS 2.1 Specification on the proper values for the 
`left' etc. properties.  Those are most certainly not (you have not posted 
the *call*).

> The page was successfully checked as valid XHTML.

Either the validator you use is borken or you have not copy-pasted the code.

> I hope this is enough info for an advice how to modify.

Probably it is where this is on-topic.


PointedEars
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DOCTYPE related question "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-02-10 12:48 +0100
  Re: DOCTYPE related question "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-02-10 14:05 +0200
  Re: DOCTYPE related question Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2012-02-10 13:07 +0100
    Re: DOCTYPE related question "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-02-10 16:41 +0100
  Re: DOCTYPE related question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-10 13:35 +0100
  Re: DOCTYPE related question Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2012-02-11 01:34 +1100
    Re: DOCTYPE related question "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-02-10 16:42 +0100
    Re: DOCTYPE related question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-10 17:07 +0100

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