- From: Tim Bagot <tsb-w3-validator-0006@earth.li>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:16:09 +0000 (UTC)
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
- Cc: Erik Forsberg <forsberg@lysator.liu.se>
At 2002-07-27T05:36-0400, Erik Forsberg wrote:- > --snip-- > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html><head> > <title>Test of the validator</title></head> > <body> > <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%>" > <tr> [...] > --snap-- > Notice the table-tag and the fact that the second '"' is outside the > tag. Is that really correct HTML? It is certainly /valid/ HTML. If you look at the parse tree, you will see that the width attribute has value "100%>". The table start tag (*not* the table element) is unclosed, but that is (in theory) allowed by SGML. It is, of course, not /correct/ HTML, because "100%>" is not permissible as a length (and because the use of various SGML SHORTTAG constructions is strongly deprecated, since few UAs incorporate anything remotely resembling a proper SGML parser). Tim Bagot
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