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- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:54:22 -0400
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I agree. This seems strange to me as well. Being able to put script tags in a table tag allows you to create more dynamic pages. You can create server side scripts (using ASP for example) that dynamically fills in a table, but it's invalid to use client side scripting to accomplish the same thing. I'm not sure if this is an issue for the html list or the validator list (so I'll send this to both). The following code is invalid, according to the w3 validator. But I would argue that it should not be. Can someone offer an explanation as to why it should be invalid? Thanks, Pete <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <table> <tr> <td>1,1</td></tr> <script language="Javascript" type="text/javascript"> var str = "<tr><td>2,1<\/td><\/tr>" document.write(str); </script> </table> </body> </html> Clover Andrew <aclover@1VALUE.com> on 06/05/2000 02:44:00 PM To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org> cc: (bcc: Peter Foti) Subject: Valid positioning of script elements I note from the HTML 4.01 DTD and from coming a cropper on the validator that one may only insert <script>s at block-level, inline, or in <head>. It is invalid for a script to live in structural markup such as <table>, <tr>, <dl> and so on. Is there any particular rationale behind this definition, or is it simply arbitrary? (It differs from every browser's implementation of <script>, though of course that on its own doesn't mean anything.) Is there any chance of a change in the future? It would be quite useful to me to be able to, for example, document.write(some extra table rows), to produce content that only appears when JavaScript is enabled (with different, backup behaviour where scripting is not supported, natch). The alternative is to write <tr> and <td> elements with block-level <script>s inside them, leaving empty rows when scripting is unavailable. This does not appeal to me aesthetically. :-) -- Andrew Clover Technical Support 1VALUE.com AG
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