[Bug 2412] Color attributes not validated?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2412

           Summary: Color attributes not validated?
           Product: Validator
           Version: 0.7.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: Parser
        AssignedTo: link@pobox.com
        ReportedBy: webmaster@cyberdogtech.com
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org


This issue was brought to my attention earlier today:  the validator does not
seem to do any integrity checking on attributes that specify color.  As a very
simple example, consider the tag:
<body bgcolor="#CC0000">

This is perfectly normal and validates fine.  Now consider:

<body bgcolor="#CC00">

This is apparently invalid.  In fact, Mozilla browsers will not accept this tag
and will render white.  This was brought to my attention when a beginning
webmaster asked my why his backgrounds only worked in IE.  My first reaction was
to tell him to use the validator to check his code.  To my dismay I realized
that the validator passed the above short tag with flying colors, no pun intended.

I'm not sure how the actual HTML specification regards this issue, or how far in
depth the validation should go, but I think merely adding a regex to check for
the # followed by 6 chars would be a big help.

Received on Saturday, 22 October 2005 17:22:33 UTC