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JavaScript Not Working With the XHTML Transitional DOCTYPE

Asked by macrolific in Extensible HTML (XHTML), JavaScript, Miscellaneous Web Development

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I'm trying to be a good citizen and make my page conform with proper XHTML.  But when I use the XHTML transitional doctype declaration, my JavaScript no longer works.

Below is what the JavaScript looks like in the head of my page.

With or without the cdata tags the page displays correctly, but the JavaScript doesn't work.  It's the same if I link to the script as an external JS page.  Without the doctype declaration the JavaScript works; with it, it doesn't.

There's another external JS page I'm linking to on the same page, and that JavaScript works perfectly with or without the doctype declaration.  So there must be something in this JavaScript code that the XHTML transitional doctype doesn't like.

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<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
function move()
 {
	document.getElementById("formArea").style.marginLeft = window.scrollX;
 }
/* ]]> */
</script>
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Zones: Extensible HTML (XHTML), JavaScript, Miscellaneous Web Development
Tags: JavaScript, XHTML
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Solution Provided By: Kravimir
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Solution Grade: A
 
 
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