I have just started using CoffeeCup as I changed machines and my much loved HotDog was no longer supported. Now I find spurious characters appearing in my preview of pages. From a little reading, it seems that my existing DOCTYPE declaration is no longer doing what I want it to. I was using <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> . What should I use now?
What DOCTYPE should I declare?
Finuala Tarnoff
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Eric Rohloff
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It might be your character set.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
I can't hear what I'm looking at.
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
It's easy to overlook something you're not looking for.
This is a site I built for my work.(RSD)
http://esmansgreenhouse.com
This is a site I built for use in my job.(HTML Editor)
https://pestlogbook.com
This is my personal site used for testing and as an easy way to share photos.(RLM imported to RSD)
https://ericrohloff.com
Finuala Tarnoff
Registered User
4 posts
Looks like that got it - thanks 
Chris
Registered User
233 posts
I have just started using CoffeeCup as I changed machines and my much loved HotDog was no longer supported.
If you now have a W7 machine and it was XP software, you could always install MS Virtual Machine and still run the old XP stuff.
Inger
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No need for that. The CC programmes have been updated and upgraded along with the Windows versions. I'm successfully running most of them on W8.
Ha en riktig god dag!
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
Yep same here, haven't had any issues (well program running issues lol) with any of the CC software so far. Most of the time if there's an issue running it, changing the Compatibility settings to Run as Administrator will fix it. Other than that everything has worked out of the box and I've actually not had to set a single thing to Administrator in Windows 8
david wilson
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I remember Hot Dog.. I started with it way back in the early 90's
Volunteering to help
http://www.tbaygeek.ca
My HTML play area
http://www.tbaygeek.ca/test/
http://www.tbaygeek.ca
My HTML play area
http://www.tbaygeek.ca/test/
Jo Rice
Senior Advisor
10,951 posts
me too!
Inger
Senior Advisor
14,571 posts
Me three 
Those were the days...
Those were the days...
Ha en riktig god dag!
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
Inger, Norway
My work in progress:
Components for Site Designer and the HTML Editor: https://mock-up.coffeecup.com
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