doctype

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Etymology[edit]

From document type.

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Noun[edit]

doctype (plural doctypes)

  1. (programming) 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.
    • 2006, Paul Haine, HTML mastery: semantics, standards, and styling:
      There are three XHTML 1.0 doctypes available […]
    • 2007, Matthew MacDonald, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008:
      Common idiosyncrasies that appear in web pages that don't have doctypes include varying text sizes and varying margin space between elements.
    • 2008, David Sawyer McFarland, JavaScript: The Missing Manual:
      Most Web page editing programs add an appropriate doctype when you create a new Web page […]

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