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Re: Validator incorrectly reports validity for case of illegal escaped whitespace before property value

From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:58:19 +0200
To: www-validator-css@w3.org
Message-Id: <200608221458.19919.bert@w3.org> 

>         element {color:\ red; }
>
> I believe that the above is illegal, if my reading of CSS 2.1 and CSS
> 2 is correct, yet the validator reports no error.

Indeed. The identifier " red" (note the space) is not a valid color.



Bert
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