You guys are both correct, because you're talking apples and oranges. "CHECKED" is a boolean attribute in HTML 4. It has no value.
But XML has no concept of boolean attributes, so in XHTML 1.0 you must specify checked="checked". - Mark. -- Mark Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Systems Architect DigitalNet, Inc. $_=q;steal Porch Junk;;split//;$_=q=cd0153e71; s/56s/45;39fs/=;y;\;s/;a28s/;;;s;$/;;;s((.))/; q.$_[..$..$_[10].$_[2].q.x..q.($1)]./gee/print > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Buddy Burden > Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 2:36 PM > To: Roderick A. Anderson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Templates] [PL] Coding for Y/N radio buttons > > > Rod, > > > Is 'CHECKED' xhtml compliant? I probably need to go back > to the books > > and standards but I thought it had to checked="checked". > > Well, my favorite HTML syntax site says it's cool, so that's probably > where I picked it up: > http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/input.html Wandering over to w3.org for the official word, I think this: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4 is the appropriate page, and, if I read it correctly, it looks like not only is checked="checked" not required, it looks like it's specifically disallowed. But IANALL(*) so apply grains of salt as appropriate. -- Buddy (*) I am not a language lawyer _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
