Re: Re: sloppiness & stupidity

At 10:51 PM +0100 6/17/09, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 23:05 +0200, 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>. /Nisse

I read somewhere that the XHTML standards say that for all attributes that would normally be standalone in HTML, they should be given a value that is the same as the attribute name, so you would use multiple="multiple", selected="selected", checked="checked", etc. As far as I know, using this in regular HTML won't cause it to choke either, as the parsers tend to only look at the existence of the attributes, not the values they may or may not have. Thanks Ash

Ash: As I understand it and is my experience, that is true -- a stand-alone HTML attribute should be equal to itself, such as selected="selected", or more specifically selected="SELECTED". However, it will still work but will throw a validation error/warning in some DOCTYPEs, such as XHTLM. I don't know of any other DOCTYPE that might throw such as error. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com