Martin
Surely they can *use* the language to create compliant markup, much like you can with Perl, PHP and CF, rather than allowing the applications' software developers to do it all (or add, as you say)?
The only comparable thing I can think of in PHP is nl2br which produces the xhtml <br /> from \n newline characters. (not helpful with HTML4 validation) - of course there are functions a coder can write to get around that issue.
What a frustrating situation - sounds like a god-awful language if it attempts to do everything for you. CSS will nullify things to some extent but inline styling in the HTML will tend to override the CSS - you may be able to put a style on the <font> tag? This doesn't solve the issue though - that would involve approaching the coders to see if they can get their script to output markup to your spec - it may simply involve tweaking the functions (?) in ASP that output the markup.
HTH James
Martin Chapman wrote:
Unfortunately, there at two factors I'm at the moment which I am up against.
1) I have little knowledge of ASP(.NET) and even if I did, it's not my code. It's the client's in-house developers (don't know how good they are)... and 2) They use Visual Studio .NET to produce their code. This code adds and uses either badly formed HTML or depreciated elements (i.e. border=0, <font> etc.)
I can use CSS to *normalise* the effects of some of these things, but I can't use it to remove such attributes physically from the outputted HTML code (I wish).
I am not entirely sure if this can be controlled at all (indications seem to be that it can't). Anyone?
On 6 Mar 2004, at 11:27, Peter Firminger wrote:
Hi Martin,
I'm not familiar with this at all. How much of this example would be
auto-generated? One would assume that a lot of it could be fixed by putting
things in the right place (scripts in the head section and adding a
doctype).
http://www.add2web.dk/aspdatagrid/Sample/default.asp
P
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