How to add doctype to html page using JavaScript or jQuery

Question

I want to add doctype for my specific page. How to add it using JavaScript or jQuery?

I want to add <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> using JavaScript .

+4

Sagar Aug 23 '11 at 9:57

1 answer

Dr. molle · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-23T10:00:31+0000

You cannot add DOCTYPE to the current document (or change it).

From MDN-docs : doctype is a read-only property.