- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 12:53:34 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 10:06a -0500 01/26/98, Chris Maden wrote: >[James Green] >> So the "" *does* work then??! Do you *know* that it is valid syntax? > >It's valid syntax. The null string satisfies a CDATA restriction for >an attribute type. > >> My my, I presume you've not heard of HTML 4.0 then? The ALT >> attribute is a requirement. > >Yes, and the null string satisfies the requirement. What is required >is that *something* is specified, and specifying nothing is different >from not specifying anything. Actually, it depends on the browser. Some versions of Lynx, and MSIE, treat <IMG SRC="foo.gif" ALT=""> the same as <IMG SRC="foo.gif"> -- the null attribute value is minimized to attribute absence, resulting in the ugly "(Image)" text being displayed. :/ The workaround is to specify *something*, most popularly a space (ALT=" "). ____________________________________________________________________________ Walter Ian Kaye <boo@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Menlo Park, CA Perl on Unix, AppleScript on MacOS, at the nation's first WWW server. More good stuff at my <http://www.natural-innovations.com/> site.
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