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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 1, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xhtml-which-do-you-use-with-rails/80878 "2007-01-01T00:35:59Z")\
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**Author:**  [@nick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xhtml-which-do-you-use-with-rails/80878/1 "2007-01-01T00:35:59Z")
hi, which version of xhtml (or html) do you use with rails? (1.0/1.1,
strict, transitional, frame)
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**Author:**  [@nick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xhtml-which-do-you-use-with-rails/80878/2 "2007-01-01T00:44:14Z")
Hi, you can use XHTML 1.0/1.1 or HTML 4.01. It really depends on what
browsers you’ll support and it’s different for everyone.
Good luck,
-Conrad
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**Author:**  [@nick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xhtml-which-do-you-use-with-rails/80878/3 "2007-01-01T01:06:18Z")
Nick,
The use of rails doesn’t effect your doctypes.
See this article for a clear explanation on the difference between
strict vs. transitional doctypes and their proper uses:
> **[Transitional vs. Strict Markup](https://24ways.org/2005/transitional-vs-strict-markup)**
>
> Roger Johansson returns to first principles and considers the fundamental differences between Transitional and Strict DOCTYPEs, as well as some of the common mistakes made when dealing with each. A timely reminder of the fundamentals can never go...
Best,
BJ Clark
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**Author:**  [@nick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xhtml-which-do-you-use-with-rails/80878/4 "2007-01-01T01:20:35Z")
Conrad T. wrote:
> Hi, you can use XHTML 1.0/1.1 or HTML 4.01. It really depends on what
> browsers you’ll support and it’s different for everyone.
>
> Good luck,
>
> -Conrad
It’s a good question, i want to support many browsers as possible 🙂
so xhtml 1.1 it’s gone because IE doesn’t support it
Now is between xhtml 1.0 (served ad html…but in this case, which are
the benefits to use xhtml?) or html 4.01
@BJ Clark: thanks
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**Author:**  [@nick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xhtml-which-do-you-use-with-rails/80878/5 "2007-01-01T19:15:48Z")
Isak H. wrote:
> On 1/1/07, nick [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
>
> > Now is between xhtml 1.0 (served ad html…but in this case, which are
> > the benefits to use xhtml?)
>
> Use a before\_filter in your application controller to set the headers
> correctly.
> Something like:
>
> def set\_encoding
> if request.env[“HTTP\_ACCEPT”] &&
> request.env[“HTTP\_ACCEPT”].index(‘application/xhtml+xml’)
> headers[“Content-Type”] = “application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8”
> else
> headers[“Content-Type”] = “text/html; charset=utf-8”
> end
> end
thanks 🙂
I’ve also found this:
[http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/test/test\_trans.htm](http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/test/test_trans.htm)
[http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/test/test\_strict.htm](http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/test/test_strict.htm)
with IE is ok, but wit firefox there is a little problem, so i don’t
know if use strict instead of transitional ☹
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**Author:**  [@nick](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nick)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xhtml-which-do-you-use-with-rails/80878/6 "2007-01-01T15:31:21Z")
On 1/1/07, nick [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Now is between xhtml 1.0 (served ad html…but in this case, which are
> the benefits to use xhtml?)
Use a before\_filter in your application controller to set the headers
correctly.
Something like:
def set\_encoding
if request.env[“HTTP\_ACCEPT”] &&
request.env[“HTTP\_ACCEPT”].index(‘application/xhtml+xml’)
headers[“Content-Type”] = “application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8”
else
headers[“Content-Type”] = “text/html; charset=utf-8”
end
end