Lachlan Hunt said:
I did mention that whitespace could not follow the MDO.
My apologies you did indeed say that.
The fact remains, that while it may be malformed and bad pratice becuase
it invites errors - comments can be terminated early or not at all, a
comment in this format is not invalid
Terrence Wood wrote:
a comment in this format is not invalid HTML:
!-- this is a valid comment ending in 2 hyphens.-- --
If it's not followed by another '--' later in the document with no
extra '--' in between, then yes it is an invalid comment declaration.
Where on earth did you get the
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 00:25 -0400, Jay Gilmore wrote:
Lori,
I am going to suggest that you download Firefox or Mozilla to develop
with. You will find that IE is too forgiving and allows errors to fall
through the cracks by trying to render the page vs. not parsing
invalid code.
IE is
Lachlan Hunt said:
Terrence Wood wrote:
a comment in this format is not invalid HTML:
!-- this is a valid comment ending in 2 hyphens.-- --
If it's not followed by another '--' later in the document with no
extra '--' in between, then yes it is an invalid comment declaration.
Where on
Lori Cole wrote:
Hi-I am new to CSS and strict. The URL I am having trouble with is
http://members.cox.net/loricole.newhome.html. The style sheet is at
http://members.cox.net.loricole/newtext.css.
Please make sure you type the URIs correctly in the future and use '.'
and '/' appropriately.
Hi Lori
Your issue with the tabs can be quickly fixed by switching the order in your
css of the #menu a:visited and #menu a:hover, so the hover is 'above' the
visited declaration.
The page break up looks like a guillotine bug. Need to dig more to find the
cause for that!
Regards
Scott Swabey
page.
Lori
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To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] page break up
Hi Lori
Your issue with the tabs can be quickly fixed
Of Scott Swabey - Lafinboy Productions
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 9:20 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: RE: [WSG] page break up
Hi Lori
Your issue with the tabs can be quickly fixed by switching the order in your
css of the #menu a:visited and #menu a:hover, so the hover is 'above
Lachlan Hunt said:
!--tab is an invalid HTML comment
how so?
Please make sure you type the URIs correctly in the future and use '.'
and '/' appropriately.
minor typos are easy to ignore, and really don't warrant being commented on
kind regards
Terrence WOod.
Lori,
I am going to suggest that you download Firefox or Mozilla to develop
with. You will find that IE is too forgiving and allows errors to fall
through the cracks by trying to render the page vs. not parsing invalid
code.It is better to learn to make it right and then tweak it for IE.
I
Terrence Wood wrote:
Lachlan Hunt said:
!--tab is an invalid HTML comment
how so?
In SGML, the comment syntax is as follows:
! (Markup declaration open (MDO))
-- first comment --(Zero or more comments.)
-- second comment --
(Markup
Lord Vader's Former Handle, Anakin
link, visited, focus, hover, active
Always in that order!
--
--
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From: Terrence Wood
Lachlan Hunt said:
!--tab is an invalid HTML comment
how so?
Perhaps not by strict definition, but the following reference
explains where Lachlan is probably coming from.
http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/misc/comment.html
I like to stick with the !--
Jay Gilmore wrote:
2. When styling your the a pseudo classes, hover, active, visited.
The way to ensure that the cascade works is through the LoVe
HAte a:link, a:visited, a:hover (a:focus), a:active. I read
somewhere that there was is a Star Wars reference that takes the
Lachlan Hunt said:
In SGML, the comment syntax is as follows:
I believe your original comment was that it was invalid HTML. While
similar, the SGML rule differs from HTML in it's treatment of whitespace,
and the example you provided is, in fact, invalid HTML. The
recommendation[1] goes on to say
Christian Montoya wrote:
Lord Vader's Former Handle, Anakin
link, visited, focus, hover, active
Always in that order!
Yeah -- that's it!
-Jay
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Terrence Wood wrote:
Lachlan Hunt said:
In SGML, the comment syntax is as follows:
I believe your original comment was that it was invalid HTML. While
similar, the SGML rule differs from HTML in it's treatment of whitespace,
There is no formal difference between HTML4 and SGML comments, as
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