Re: bug: <FORM name= ...> in HTML 4.01 Transitional from Nick Kew on 2001-08-16 (www-validator@w3.org from August 2001)

From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 21:29:54 +0100 (BST)
To: Serguei Trouchelle <stro@isd.dp.ua>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108162128150.569-100000@fenris.webthing.com>

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Serguei Trouchelle wrote:

> 
> Validator.w3.org says that "name" attribute doesn't exist in <FORM> in
> HTML 4.01 Transitional. DTD and HTML specification (17.3) says that

That's a nasty gotcha.  Your problem is that you declared your
document as HTML 4.0, not 4.01.  Inclusion of the NAME attribute
to FORM is one of the corrections between the two DTDs.

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Nick Kew

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Received on Thursday, 16 August 2001 17:29:36 UTC