Re: Jose Kahan:

On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Daniel Dardailler wrote:

> 2. Can someone tell me what the maximum character string length is
> for the ALT attribute in HTML 3.2? Is it 256 characters? I spent
> all week trying to find this in the spec to no avail. I believe
> this could contribute to the minimum standard as currently
> specified. 

This is specified in the SGML declaration. The intention is that
user agents should avoid fixed limits for attribute values. I will
try to alter the 4.0 spec to make this clearer.

Regards,

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Received on Monday, 21 July 1997 10:12:35 UTC