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Member Login| HTML Help: Quirks Mode In the previous issue of
AAN you wrote that a browser displays web pages in "quirks mode"
if no DOCTYPE is used. What is quirks mode?Once upon a time
there were two dominant browsers, Netscape and Internet
Explorer. When CSS first came out, the two browsers offered poor
support, and the support they did offer often didn't match each
other. As newer versions of each browser came out the support
for CSS got better, and the browsers even began to treat the
standards in similar, if not the exact same ways. Now, many
years later, most browsers support CSS very nicely, but browser
vendors had a problem that needed to be solved. In the old days
there were millions of web pages that were written when CSS
support was very spotty, and even HTML wasn't always rendered
according to standards. Webmasters had to use all kinds of
tricks to make pages display similarly in