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Mandeep Live Gallery
I found a problem when I installed the Live Gallery module that created a photo caption box that was too small to enter caption information into. It turns out the skin doctype was the problem and below I have outlined the steps to take to resolve the issue.
With the help of Mandeep I've figured out the problem to the caption edit box on my installs of Live Gallery.
To get it to work correctly the doctype needs to be Transitional and xhtml. The following code can be pasted into an xml file that is named the same as the ascx file that the skin uses...i.e., myskin.ascx (extra file - myskin.doctype.xml)
The following code is all that is in the file.
<SkinDocType>
<![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">]]>
</SkinDocType>
Good Luck!
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