Re: Bug? from Bjoern Hoehrmann on 2002-11-08 (www-validator@w3.org from November 2002)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 04:08:55 +0100
To: "Benjamiin Kuz" <ben@slax0rnet.com>
Cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <3dcd2a42.9002695@smtp.bjoern.hoehrmann.de>

* Benjamiin Kuz wrote:
>When I validate a page using XHTML 1.0 strict that contains links with
>the target="_blank" attribute in the <a> tags, the validator complains
>that target= is not a valid attribute.  However, it only complains about
>the first link, and it ignores the rest.
>
>I'm pretty sure target= hasn't been removed in XHTML 1.0 strict, could
>this be a bug with the validator?

Please take a look at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/attributes You'll
notice the target attribute has indeed been removed from HTML 4 Strict,
this is not a bug in the W3C MarkUp Validator. Reporting the error only
once could however be seen as an error.

Received on Thursday, 7 November 2002 22:08:26 UTC