!DOCTYPE and function refreshIt() not working together

Hi,

I�m new, just as a warning to start with. We have one problem we can�t figure out.

If we have a !DOCTYPE at the start of the page - as it is supposed to be, our function is not working at all:

function refreshIt()

alert("alert"+form1.select.value);
window.location.href = form1.select.value + "-cat.htm";

as soon as we remove the !DOCTYPE everything works fine - is there any way around this problem? I really would like to have validated webpages.

Appreciate your comments
thanks
R

there should not be any problem.
How did you write the doctype ?
(note that there is a forum called HTML/Javascript)

this is what we used:

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

+ metatags etc.

Please read 4.8 Script and Style elements for XHTML:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8

And please read the Naming Policy and change your name. Thank you

"wildnis",

Satou is correct about your display name.

There aren't many rules that you need to worry about here on the Ranch, but one that we take very seriously regards the use of proper names. Please take a look at the JavaRanch Naming Policy and adjust your display name to match it.

In particular, your display name must be a first and a last name separated by a space character, and must not be obviously fictitious.

Thanks!
bear
JavaRanch Sheriff

Also, this forum is for JSP questions, not javascript. Please take the time to post your question in the proper forum.

Moved to the HTML forum.