Re: Strict Not so strict.

On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jamey Weare wrote:

> I was demonstrating to my students the validator for
> strict XHTML today and found it to not be so strict.
> It allowed align, valign, border, and width attributes.

Yes, HTML Strict is a halfway-house between legacy and cleansed.
It allows presentational attributes on some elements.

> I was under the understanding that all of those attributes
> were deprecated. I seem to remember these being found
> as errors in the past. Is there a bug or is it now allowed?

They are errors if applied to an element where they are not allowed.

If you want stricter validation, strip the DTD down a bit, or use
another DTD.

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Nick Kew

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