# Doctype freezes jscript action

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doctype-freezes-jscript-action/188573>\
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**Created:** [May 9, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doctype-freezes-jscript-action/188573 "2006-05-09T05:18:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![multimediamkt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@multimediamkt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/multimediamkt)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doctype-freezes-jscript-action/188573/1 "2006-05-09T05:18:17Z")

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may 8th 2006

doctype freezes a floating div jscript ;  
I just removed doctype and the script ran normally ;  
why ?

\<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”  
“[http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd](http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd)”\>  
\<html\>  
\<head\>  
\<title\>…\</title\>

\<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”… etc
