diff --git a/templates/layout.admin.php b/templates/layout.admin.php
index 52912f4876..68b1a9e75e 100644
--- a/templates/layout.admin.php
+++ b/templates/layout.admin.php
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
-<?php
-/*
- * Template for admin pages
- */
-?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
 	<head>
 		<title>ownCloud</title>
 		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
diff --git a/templates/layout.guest.php b/templates/layout.guest.php
index 8d567759ff..d86da0610f 100644
--- a/templates/layout.guest.php
+++ b/templates/layout.guest.php
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
-<?php
-/*
- * Template for guest pages
- */
-?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
 	<head>
 		<title>ownCloud</title>
 		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
diff --git a/templates/layout.user.php b/templates/layout.user.php
index 0ee4962315..7c1bfe5ad2 100644
--- a/templates/layout.user.php
+++ b/templates/layout.user.php
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
-<?php
-/*
- * Template for user pages
- */
-?>
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
 	<head>
 		<title>ownCloud</title>
 		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
