On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 12:27:43AM +1000, Tigger wrote: > I believe the validator is wrong with the following XHTML > > This is invalid (NOTE: may be wraped, was all one line): > <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">document.write('<a > href="#" onclick="thumbs(); return false;">Doom 3 engine</a>');</script> The validator is not wrong. "In XHTML, the script and style elements are declared as having #PCDATA content. As a result, < and & will be treated as the start of markup" -- http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8 > However, this is valid: > <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> > <!-- > document.write('<a href="#" onclick="thumbs(); return false;">Doom 3 > engine</a>'); > // --> > </script> Yes, you've commented it out. If your client was treating your XHTML as XML instead of broken HTML it would be entirely ignored. > Also, this is invalid, however I can't work out why: > <noscript><a href="/shots.php?e=d3">Doom 3 engine</a></noscript> <!ELEMENT NOSCRIPT - - (%block;)+ -- http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/scripts.html#h-18.3.1 The element can contain only block level children. <a> is inline. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukReceived on Monday, 4 September 2006 14:23:06 UTC
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