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Directive vs Doctype - What's the difference?

directive | doctype |

As nouns the difference between directive and doctype

is that directive is an instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal while doctype is (computing) a directive that associates an sgml or xml document (such as a webpage) with a , potentially affecting how it is parsed and rendered.

As an adjective directive

is that directs.

directive

English

(wikipedia directive)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
  • An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
  • (European Union law) A form of legislative act addressed to the Member States. The directive binds the Member State to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.
  • The directive case.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • that directs
  • serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
  • (grammar) relating to the directive case

    • doctype

    English

    (wikipedia doctype)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A directive that associates an SGML or XML document (such as a webpage) with a , potentially affecting how it is parsed and rendered.
  • * 2006 , Paul Haine, HTML mastery: semantics, standards, and styling
    • There are three XHTML 1.0 doctypes available
  • * 2007 , Matthew MacDonald, Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 in C# 2008
    • Common idiosyncrasies that appear in web pages that don't have doctypes include varying text sizes and varying margin space between elements.
  • * 2008 , David Sawyer McFarland, JavaScript: The Missing Manual
    • Most Web page editing programs add an appropriate doctype when you create a new Web page