Re: TEXTAREA Validation?

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:19 -0500, Will Fastie wrote:
> On a page with several textareas containing code (JavaScript) for
> display (as opposed to being on a form), the validator issued various
> errors and warnings about the content of the textareas.

> Is this the expected behavior or should the validator ignore textarea
> content?

It is expected behaviour, represent characters that have special meaning
in HTML to entities as per normal:
http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?Show_HTML_examples

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David Dorward                           <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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Received on Friday, 24 March 2006 07:58:26 UTC