doctype
nounEtymology From document type.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences A directive that associates an SGML or XML document (such as a webpage) with a Document Type Definition, potentially affecting how it is parsed and rendered.
- There are three XHTML 1.0 doctypes available […]2006, Paul Haine, HTML mastery: semantics, standards, and styling:
- Common idiosyncrasies that appear in web pages that don't have doctypes include varying text sizes and varying margin space between elements.2007, Matthew MacDonald, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008:
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- Most Web page editing programs add an appropriate doctype when you create a new Web page […]2008, David Sawyer McFarland, JavaScript: The Missing Manual: