- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:56:27 +0000
- To: web@fastie.net
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:19 -0500, Will Fastie wrote:
> On a page with several textareas containing code (JavaScript) for
> display (as opposed to being on a form), the validator issued various
> errors and warnings about the content of the textareas.
> Is this the expected behavior or should the validator ignore textarea
> content?
It is expected behaviour, represent characters that have special meaning
in HTML to entities as per normal:
http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?Show_HTML_examples
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David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>
"Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another."
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