- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:32:26 +0200 (EET)
- To: Martin Eklund <webworks@teadrinker.net>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Martin Eklund wrote: > Line 1089 column 18: there is no attribute "WRAP". > > <textarea wrap="off" ... > > I think the message should mention the css props, > it took me hours to find: > "white-space: nowrap ; overflow:auto ;" The purpose of a validator is to report reportable markup errors. Generally, anyone who uses a validator is expected to take it from there, using whatever authoring resources he knows. I'm afraid a validator cannot contain very much information about CSS equivalents, especially since most nonstandard constructs used in HTML have no clear-cut CSS equivalents. I must admit, though, that it would be nice if your point could be included into the examples that the validator gives about possibilities of replacing commonly used "HTML extensions". After all, I did not realize that you could use CSS that way - and I have made some study of textarea wrapping over the years. The wrap="off" attribute used to be among my favorite points in saying that sometimes nonstandard markup is justifiable - a nonstandard way of making browser behave the way the standard suggests! (I still have <nobr> and <wbr> in my bag.) -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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