Declaring Doctype HTML5

Asked Dec 12 '15 at 19:22

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With HTML5, declaring the doctype only requires this code:

<!DOCTYPE html>

Where as older versions needed something like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

Why doesn't HTML5 doctype need to reference the version such as <!DOCTYPE html5>?

I understand the doctype is only needed to force standards rendering, but if HTML6 was released with new features, wouldn't HTML5 declarations need to reference the version?

edited Dec 12 '15 at 19:42

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asked Dec 12 '15 at 19:22

Simon J

Have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4970013/is-the-html5-doctype-the-last-one-we-will-see – galchen Dec 12 '15 at 19:31
Thanks, answered my question perfectly. Apologies for not searching thoroughly myself. – Simon J Dec 12 '15 at 19:35
maybe you can take a look at this. http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp – Adarsh Mohan Dec 12 '15 at 19:43
these comments should be collected and posted to make them an answer to the question. – Martin Dec 12 '15 at 19:54

Declaring Doctype HTML5

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