RE: [PHP] Re: sloppiness & stupidity

On 17 June 2009 22:05, Nisse Engström advised: > 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>. Well, on checking I'm surprised to find that you are right and I am wrong, and I will have to mend my ways. I don't know how I came to believe that the attribute value didn't matter, but there you go. An excellent example of what I referred to before as confidence in one's own misunderstanding! 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