Re: bug with <textarea> in xhtml

"vincent.fiack@laposte.net" <vincent.fiack@laposte.net> wrote:

> The validator seems to be too permissive with texareas.
> According to the DTD, the texarea element has to contain #PCDATA.
> 
> However, the valdiator is accepting EMPTY textarea elements.

#PCDATA can be an empty string and in which case an empty-element tag
may be used according to XML.

Regards,
-- 
Masayasu Ishikawa / mimasa@w3.org
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

Received on Wednesday, 26 June 2002 01:59:06 UTC