- From: Davydd Cook <davydd@mnsi.net>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:06:35 -0500 (EST)
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Hello all. I was just running a validation on some PHP-generated code to make sure everything was being spit out properly, and came across this one error which prevented validation: ... a href=http://some.link.here/ target="_blank">link text ... Error: there is no attribute "TARGET" for this element (in this HTML version) Wondering about this and how anybody would manage to write a framed site using the strict HTML 4.01 DTD, I popped over to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/frames.html#adef-target and found this in the spec: "By assigning a name to a frame via the name attribute, authors can refer to it as the "target" of links defined by other elements. The target attribute may be set for elements that create links (A, LINK), image maps (AREA), and forms (FORM)." A quick check through Appendix A of the spec doesn't show any errors referring to that particular passage. Is there something I'm missing, or is this possibly just an oversight in the validator's parser? Curious.... -Davydd Cook
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