Re: Re: sloppiness & stupidity

Nisse Engström wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:18:09 +0100, "Ford, Mike" wrote: > > >> 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. >> > > The multiple attribute only has one value: "multiple", so > it has to be <select multiple="multiple">. I don't think > "yes" cuts the mustard. In HTML, you can shorten it to > <select multiple>. > From my limited experience, and vast reading of those glorious 20,000 entries on the Internet, multiple does not take a parameter. I had my fingers slapped once when I validated or something - multiple is just plain multiple ! :-P ;-) :-) -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@ptahhotep.com http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php