RE: [PHP] Re: sloppiness & stupidity

On 17 June 2009 23:56, PJ advised: > 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 ;-) :-) Oh, good grief! Did you even read what you've quoted from me above? If you code to an HTML standard, then multiple can indeed be just plain multiple, but HTML 4 does allow the addition of ="multiple" for compatibility reasons. But if you code to an XHTML standard, multiple must be multiple="multiple", as XHTML **requires** that all attributes have an argument, and (as I've just learned!) "multiple" is the only valid argument for the multiple attribute. No modern browser that I know of will object to the multiple="multiple" usage. 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