I note from the HTML 4.01 DTD and from coming a cropper on the validator that one may only insert <script>s at block-level, inline, or in <head>. It is invalid for a script to live in structural markup such as <table>, <tr>, <dl> and so on. Is there any particular rationale behind this definition, or is it simply arbitrary? (It differs from every browser's implementation of <script>, though of course that on its own doesn't mean anything.) Is there any chance of a change in the future? It would be quite useful to me to be able to, for example, document.write(some extra table rows), to produce content that only appears when JavaScript is enabled (with different, backup behaviour where scripting is not supported, natch). The alternative is to write <tr> and <td> elements with block-level <script>s inside them, leaving empty rows when scripting is unavailable. This does not appeal to me aesthetically. :-) -- Andrew Clover Technical Support 1VALUE.com AGReceived on Monday, 5 June 2000 14:47:29 GMT
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