- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:08:16 +0300 (EEST)
- To: Curt.Brown@pobox.com
- Cc: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Curtis Brown wrote: > I get the following four errors when trying to validate: > http://www.spectraldesign.net/ but I think the problem is in the > validator routine. It isn't, and it seems that you have found the problem in your markup, since the page now validates. > | <option value="Design" />*D*esign| The problem was that you had used the "/" character inside the tag, making the tag "self-closing". The markup <option value="Design">Design</option> (which you have now) is correct. Although <option value="..." /> would as such be valid, it would be equivalent to <option value="..."></option>, so that the text of the option would be empty. Moreover this would violate the recommend to use "self-closing" tags only for elements with _declared_ EMPTY content such as img or br (i.e. for elements that _cannot_, by XHTML syntax rules, have any content). -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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