White space before the doctype

Question

you have white space before the doctype is declared
link www.healthhokkaido.com
Can someone give me a simple explanation of this in respect
to the above link
Not exactly sure what to do to fix this or really where to
begin
Please give me some help

Answer 1

I'm sure that he is sure about the xml declaration! But I
think he's wrong
about the whitespace - check my page that reports the
compatability mode for
the render -
http://murraytestsite.com/whitespace.html
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"Thierry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:fqh4is$jq$[email protected]..
> "Gary White" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:[email protected]..
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 06:56:35 -0500, "Murray *ACE*"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>Whitespace above the doctype is of no
consequence, as long as it is
>>>really
>>>whitespace.
>>
>> Whitespace above the doctype with cause IE to render
in quirks mode. The
>> referenced page also has an XML declaration above
the doctype that will
>> do the same thing. To get IE into standards mode,
you'd need to remove
>> both the whitespace and the XML declaration.
>
> Hi Gary,
> Are you sure about the whitespace?
>
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