On 9/6/05, George L Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> as my doctype
You might want to read: * http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml * http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html#accept HTML 4.01 is rather better suited to the web of today then XHTML. > it will not validate because http://validator.w3.org is telling > me that the less than sign in my "for" statement is not valid [ for (i = 0; i > < 10; i++) { ]. < indicates that you are trying to start a tag (at least it does there, if you were using HTML then the content module of the <script> element would allow you to use < characters freely. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8 ... and move your script to an external file. > Also, I have to give an image a name so that I can address it, > and that is not validating either. Use an id instead. Name is used pretty much ONLY to decide how the browser should label the values of form controls when submitting a form. > Are these actual problems with Strict or is the validator getting confused. See the quote at the top of the validator FAQ page. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk><http://blog.dorward.me.uk> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
