Why does the HTML5 DOCTYPE mess with my padding?

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Published on 2010-06-09T04:15:08Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 4:22 UTC
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I have an html5 page with a navbar. Completely scratch coded. I just recently added a doctype to the item, and now I’m getting extra space under my navbar. If I remove the doctype declaration, it goes back to normal. I have completely reset padding, margins, etc. on everything, and cut it down to the a small amount of code that illustrates the issue.

The page can be seen at http://hackthetruth.org/webdesign/broken

Does anyone know why declaring the doctype is messing with the height of a div?

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