RE: inconsistensy between xhtml and css validators.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: www-validator-request@w3.org [mailto:www-validator-request@w3.org]
On Behalf Of Sergei Shelukhin
Sent: 24 July 2005 17:43
To: www-validator@w3.org
Subject: inconsistensy between xhtml and css validators.


> I have < and > symbols used as is in it; unfortunately, browsers don't

> decode entities inside white-space:pre; or <pre> blocks, so I have to 
> use characters themselves.

Browsers do decode entities inside preformatted blocks, so you can use
them without a problem. Not sure why you think they don't.
See http://uk.builder.com/programming/java/0,39026606,39256362,00.htm
for an example.