# Problems with !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 17, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-doctype-html-public-w3c-dtd-html-4-01-en/135045 "2008-04-17T13:06:18Z")\
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When I include in my header, my CSS files no
longer show… they show up in code though, \<%= stylesheet\_link\_tag
‘display’ %\> becomes .
I heard Rails is hard-coded to only do XHTML, and that I might have to
do some monkey patching. But I’m clueless as to how.
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Mister Blood R.
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Mister Blood R. wrote:
| When I include in my header, my CSS files no
| longer show… they show up in code though, \<%= stylesheet\_link\_tag
| ‘display’ %\> becomes \.
|
| I heard Rails is hard-coded to only do XHTML, and that I might have to
| do some monkey patching. But I’m clueless as to how.
Here’s a crazy idea: Use XHTML. Learning to properly nest tags and use
self-closing tags isn’t that big of a deal, really. It’s easier than
learning to use Ruby and Rails’ DSL for web apps.
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Phillip G.
Twitter: [twitter.com/cynicalryan](http://twitter.com/cynicalryan)
Will I dream?
~ – HAL-9000
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Turned out I had some stale XHTML tags around.
Anyway I’ve heard that future versions of HTML will not be based on
HTML as opposed to XHTML,
hence there’s no point in switching.
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Mister Blood R.
On Apr 17, 8:02 pm, Phillip G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
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Actually my problem didn’t go away.
Considering giving [http://dev.turnipspatch.com/trac/wiki/HTMLOutput](http://dev.turnipspatch.com/trac/wiki/HTMLOutput) a
go…
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“Are you using XHTML? READ THIS:
> **[Beware of XHTML](http://www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml)**
>
> An explanation of why XHTML may be a poor choice of document format in most cases.
, [http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml](http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml) ,
[Validity and Well-formedness](http://www.webdevout.net/articles/validity-and-well-formedness)
, [http://www.csarven.ca/interview-with-steven-pemberton](http://www.csarven.ca/interview-with-steven-pemberton)”
From freenode #html…
On Apr 17, 8:02 pm, Phillip G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)
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I’m using Apache+mod\_rails, like this:
\
ServerName [mysite.com](http://mysite.com)
ServerAlias [www.mysite.com](http://www.mysite.com)
DocumentRoot /services/httpd/mysite.com/public
\
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
RailsBaseURI /