Re: Tidy Tidy!

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Treisch, Chris wrote:

> My Name is Chris Treisch and I am a consultant at CoreComm. We
> are very interested in conforming to w3c standards, but we can
> not deploy Tidy for ASP use, as it has issues with some ASP
> code.
> 
> I know it is clearly documented about the -->
> value="<%=rs("varName")%>" issue, but what are your plans in
> releasing a version that deals with these issues a bit more
> gracefully? Any suggestions until then?

You can avoid problems with the quotemarks by using a single
quote mark for the attribute, e.g.

   value='<%=rs("varName")%>'

which should work fine.

> Also, what if our organization requires width, align and valign
> in <td> tags? Any way to flag them?

These are allowed in XHTML in the loose version of the DTD.

Regards,

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