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gyang
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Having trouble with our html file because WebFOCUS requires syntax < !-- Generated by Report Layout Painter --> to be the first line in the html, but without having < !DOCTYPE HTML> as the first line, IE switches to quirks mode. In quirks mode we lose the IE9/HTML5 features. Have anyone seen this problem or solve this problem? Thanks!

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njsden
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This looks rather silly but may help.

How about creating a wrap .fex you can use to create the DOCTYPE you require before invoking your HTML Composer-created page?

Say you have an HTML page called mypage.htm .

You could create a procedure called loadmypage.fex with a content such as this:

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
-HTMLFORM END

-HTMLFORM mypage.htm



Now, if your HTML is *not* in a Managed Reporting domain but hosted in the Reporting Server you could actually create a generic wrap procedure that you'd use to load just about any HTML file via a parameter:

-DEFAULT &P_PAGE = 'mypage.htm'

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<!DOCTYPE HTML
-HTMLFORM END

-* Load htm file
-HTMLFORM &P_PAGE



Hope this helps.


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thank you njsden, I will give it a try.


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dhagen
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I think I solved this last night. I am working on a similar issue where I needed to remove the comment, and replace the DOCTYPE reference with:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
to open up style options.
I wrote a filter to intercept the HTML write commands from Dev Studio for both MRE and self service requests. Seems to be working fine at this time with minimal testing. Just work as normal, and click Save. The process does the rest. I will share if you want to be a tester for this.


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njsden
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I wouldn't mind being a guinea pig on this one ... it's all for a good cause Wink


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email?


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gyang
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dhagen,
do you mind sharing your filter and instruction on how you acheive this? This would be so great for us so we can style our html pages. My email is gyang@plex.com. Thanks!


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On its way. Let me know if you have problems.


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njsden@yahoo.com

Thanks.


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J.Hines
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I'm creating AHTML reports and though it's not coming through with the comment you noted, and even with a DOCTYPE declaration of
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

something is still triggering quirks mode in IE, which as you noted greatly affects styling possibilites. The report works fine in Firefox (which unfortunately most of our users don't use).

Any suggestions on what I can do?

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Francis Mariani
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J, how do you apply this doctype? The only way I think of is to add an -HTMLFORM BEGIN and -HTMLFORM END with the doctype within (which is where I also have the css styling you so generously shared in your other recent post). The problem with this is that there are two HTML tags in the same file, one for the report and one in the HTMLFORM, which might be a problem...


Francis


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J.Hines
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Oh, I was just saying that's the default DOCTYPE created, unfortunately I have no control over it. I thought about the HTMLFORM idea, but I don't think that would work for me since I'm not calling an HTML report, but an AHTML procedure. And you're probably right, two DOCTYPE declarations wouldn't be a good thing.

dhagen, do you still have your solution lying around?


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