# Doctyping is it needed?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doctyping-is-it-needed/220856>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 29, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doctyping-is-it-needed/220856 "2007-03-29T21:56:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![brndn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@brndn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/brndn)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doctyping-is-it-needed/220856/1 "2007-03-29T21:56:49Z")

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Hey I have been pulling my hair out over a javascript scroller that would not work in FF.  
I have just removed

```auto
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

```

and now it goes.

So really what I want to know is will there be big problems if i just leave the doctype out of my html document??

iv also tried all the other strict, loose etc, etc and they all do the same thing.

wierd…