How To Declare DOCTYPE And Encoding Using CGI.pm And PERL
erics, Posted May 31st, 2011 at 10:10:26am
I found myself needing a specific doctype the other day and this is what I found…
First, get the correct doctype string from the W3C website list.
Then, simply use -dtd to specify it to CGI.pm during the call to start_html:
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-dtd => '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN' -OR- -dtd=>['-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN','http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd'] |
In addition, use -encoding to specify the character set for XHTML. It defaults to iso-8859-1 if not specified.
The encoding may also be set in the header using -charset like this (shown with the optional -cookie parameter):
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print header( -charset=>'utf-8', -cookie=>$cookie, ); |
Categories: How-To's, Technology CGI.pm, DocType, DTD, encoding, howto, ISO-8859-1, Loose, perl, Strict, tips, Transitional, UTF-8, W3C
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