On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 15:52 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > The content type doesn't come from the document, it is set by the web server. > > xhtml is xml and should have an xml content type. However that doesn't > work with IE properly, so most people have the content type set to text/html > which is incorrect but will work good enough for most purposes. > Ah - you are correct. I remember now. I was serving my pages as xml and had to change it for IE - and as a result of changing it for IE - had to put the doctype string in so it would validate/behave properly in firefox (such as the id attribute). I guess you can tell I don't do this everyday.