Re: Re: sloppiness & stupidity

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:59:36 -0400, tedd wrote: > 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 In HTML (as opposed to XHTML), there are a bunch of shortcut features[1] that allow you to write <option selected=selected> or <option selected> with exactly the same meaning. > more specifically selected="SELECTED". However, I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. The selected attribute is case insensitive in HTML, so there is no difference between the two. > 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. XHTML is different. It doen't have nearly as many shortcuts as HTML, and tends to be more sensitive about case. I don't know (and don't care) about the exact details. [1]: They have technical names that I can't remember. Look them up in the SGML standard. /Nisse