- From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 01:44:39 -0500
- To: <html-tidy@w3.org>
> I have run into a problem I need to get clear in my mind.
>
> Tidy allows (and creates) the following URL formats.
> The W3C validator passes the following URL formats.
>
> <a href=
> "http://www.xxxxxxx.com/yyyyyy/zzzzzz.htm">
>
> <a
> href="http://www.xxxxxxxl.com/yyyyyy/zzzzzz.htm">
>
> Are the above valid but bad HTML?
After the < and the element name, you can have any whitespace before and after
the attribute name, before and after the = sign, or between the attribute value
and the closing > of the start tag.
Bad? How so? The following is perfectly valid:
<a
href =
"foo"
>
If by bad, you mean hard-to-read, well yes -- in that example. But in the case
of long URLs, it sometimes makes sense to linebreak before or after attributes,
since you don't want to break the URL itself.
/Jelks
Received on Tuesday, 28 March 2000 01:45:28 UTC