diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | system/helpers/html_helper.php | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/helpers/html_helper.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_310.rst | 13 |
4 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/system/helpers/html_helper.php b/system/helpers/html_helper.php index becd9a00c..696f0eee2 100644 --- a/system/helpers/html_helper.php +++ b/system/helpers/html_helper.php @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ if ( ! function_exists('doctype')) * @param string type The doctype to be generated * @return string */ - function doctype($type = 'xhtml1-strict') + function doctype($type = 'html5') { static $doctypes; diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst index 9bbe38207..7c09047f0 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Release Date: Not Released - Helpers - Updated :doc:`HTML Helper <helpers/html_helper>` function :php:func:`meta()` with support for "charset" and "property" properties. + - Changed :doc:`HTML Helper <helpers/html_helper>` function :php:func:`doctype()` default document type to HTML 5. Version 3.0.5 ============= diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/html_helper.rst b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/html_helper.rst index a19924dde..b4e56fdca 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/html_helper.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/html_helper.rst @@ -330,18 +330,18 @@ The following functions are available: // <meta charset="UTF-8" /> -.. php:function:: doctype([$type = 'xhtml1-strict']) +.. php:function:: doctype([$type = 'html5']) :param string $type: Doctype name :returns: HTML DocType tag :rtype: string - Helps you generate document type declarations, or DTD's. XHTML 1.0 + Helps you generate document type declarations, or DTD's. HTML 5 is used by default, but many doctypes are available. Example:: - echo doctype(); // <!DOCTYPE PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> + echo doctype(); // <!DOCTYPE html> echo doctype('html4-trans'); // <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_310.rst b/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_310.rst index 37772cd4f..b86bb1da3 100644 --- a/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_310.rst +++ b/user_guide_src/source/installation/upgrade_310.rst @@ -57,3 +57,16 @@ method would now only be to change the connection character set at runtime. That doesn't make sense and that's the reason why most database drivers don't support it at all. Thus, ``db_set_charset()`` is no longer necessary and is removed. + +Step 3: Check usage of doctype() HTML helper +============================================ + +The :doc:`HTML Helper <../helpers/html_helper>` function +:php:func:`doctype()` used to default to 'xhtml1-strict' (XHTML 1.0 Strict) +when no document type was specified. That default value is now changed to +'html5', which obviously stands for the modern HTML 5 standard. + +Nothing should be really broken by this change, but if your application +relies on the default value, you should double-check it and either +explicitly set the desired format, or adapt your front-end to use proper +HTML 5 formatting.
\ No newline at end of file |