Re: [PHP] 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

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