In my page, the doctype is declared as:

```
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

```

no DTD is explicitly specified.
I wonder in IE which DTD will be defaulted?

seems it does not behave the same as

```
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"

```

since my table in the page was broken after I added the loose.dtd.
Can anyone help explain this?
Thanks!