Re: bug: <FORM name= ...> in HTML 4.01 Transitional

From: Nick Kew (nick@webthing.com)
Date: Thu, Aug 16 2001

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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:29:54 +0100 (BST)
From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
To: Serguei Trouchelle <stro@isd.dp.ua>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108162128150.569-100000@fenris.webthing.com>
Subject: Re: bug: <FORM name= ...> in HTML 4.01 Transitional

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Serguei Trouchelle wrote:

> 
> Validator.w3.org says that "name" attribute doesn't exist in <FORM> in
> HTML 4.01 Transitional. DTD and HTML specification (17.3) says that

That's a nasty gotcha.  Your problem is that you declared your
document as HTML 4.0, not 4.01.  Inclusion of the NAME attribute
to FORM is one of the corrections between the two DTDs.

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Nick Kew

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