RE: [PHP] Re: sloppiness & stupidity

On 17 June 2009 02:11, Shawn McKenzie advised: > PJ wrote: >> I'm sorry, guys, but I am really getting po'd. >> The irresponsible sloppiness and stupidity is just getting to me. >> In my quest for a way to populate a multiple option select box I have >> run across so many errors that it's beyond belief... such nonsense as >> "select for select or select="select" ( think this is right, but then >> who knows?) > > I know. So does the HTML recommendation which states that it is a > boolean attribute, meaning it is stated (on/boolean 1) or it isn't > (off/boolean 0) in the HTML context. So while other variations may work, > this is correct: > > For multiple select: > <SELECT multiple name="component-select"> > > --or-- > > For single select: > <SELECT name="component-select"> This is very true -- but XHTML requires *all* attributes to have a value, so an XHTML conformant page will use <select multiple="multiple" name="selector"> (or something similar such as <select multiple="yes" name="selector">). The only inconsistency here is that different people have chosen to validate against different standards. Other differences you may see are because in most programming TIMTOWTDI[1], as perl would have it, and different people make different choices about which way to go. Then again, some *is* simply due to sloppiness, or under-explanation because of over-familiarity with the code or feature in question, or confidence in one's own misunderstanding! [1] There Is More Than One Way To Do It Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, C507, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter Campus, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS, LS1 3HE, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@leedsmet.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 812 4730 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm