Re: HTML errors

On 12/01/11 03:35, David McGlone wrote:

Hi Everyone, I'm having a problem validating some links I have in a foreach. Here is my code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> my PHP code: $categorys = array('home', 'services', 'gallery', 'about_us', 'contact_us', 'testimonials'); foreach($categorys as $category){ $replace = str_replace("_", " ", $category); echo "<li><a href='index.php?page=$category'>$replace</a></li>"; } Validator Error: an attribute value must be a literal unless it contains only name characters …ome>home</a></li><li><a href=index.php?page=services>services</a></li><li><a h… I have tried various combinatons and different doctypes. I'm beginning to wonder if this code is allowed at all.

All the other replies are talking nonsense (especially Daniel ;) ! There's no reason why HTML with single-quoted attributes isn't valid, so in principle your expected output of <a href='index.php?page=services'>services</a> should be OK. The real challenge is to understand why the code fragment you have presented is losing the single quotes: are you *sure* this is exactly what you have in your file (i.e. have you copied it to the posted message properly) ? -- Peter Ford, Developer phone: 01580 893333 fax: 01580 893399 Justcroft International Ltd. www.justcroft.com Justcroft House, High Street, Staplehurst, Kent TN12 0AH United Kingdom Registered in England and Wales: 2297906 Registered office: Stag Gates House, 63/64 The Avenue, Southampton SO17 1XS