- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:52:46 +0100
- To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
* Jean Delvare wrote: >> * Jean Delvare wrote: >> >I could notice yesterday that though the validator will complain >> >about<font size=+1>, asking for quotes around +1, it won't complain >> >about<font size=-1>. It should, right? >> >> No, see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2 >> If the attribute value contains no characters but [A-Za-z0-9:.-_] >> it may be left unquoted. > >Oh, sorry I missed that detail. Seems that I had stop reading after >"(A-Za-z), digits". By the way, the validator says: "Error: an attribute >value must be quoted if it contains any character other than letters >(A-Za-z), digits, hyphens, and periods;", so colons and underscores are >not mentioned, but should be according to the above URI. Yes, but see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/changes.html#h-A.1.1.2 The Validator would need a special error message for HTML 4.01 documents
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