- From: Murray Altheim <altheim@mehitabel.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 10:45:39 -0700 (PDT)
- To: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org, paciello@yuri.org
- Cc: karben@interactive.wsj.com, Kerscher@montana.com, hbingham@acm.org, paciello@yuri.org, altheim@mehitabel.Eng.Sun.COM, jallan@TENET.EDU, icrrj@asuvm.inre.asu.edu, murray@yuri.org, Joe@Duxsys.com, larry_goldberg@wgbh.org
Mike Paciello <paciello@yuri.org> writes:
> 2. Can someone tell me what the maximum character string length is for the
> ALT attribute in HTML 3.2? Is it 256 characters? I spent all week trying to
> find this in the spec to no avail. I believe this could contribute to the
> minimum standard as currently specified.
This is specified in the maximum literal length field in the SGML declaration,
LITLEN, which in HTML 2.0 was 72 characters. There was also a limit on the
maximum number of characters in a start tag (ATTSPLEN) of 2100 characters.
These limits have both been increased to 64K in HTML 3.2, basically putting
the responsibility for limits on the UA.
Murray
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Received on Monday, 7 July 1997 13:52:00 UTC