- From: Philip Taylor <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:12:22 +0100
- To: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- CC: Ken Geis <kgeis@berkeley.edu>, www-validator@w3.org
David Dorward wrote: > I just created and validated this document (where all options are > children of opt groups) and the validator passed it. > > Can you provide a reproducible test case to go with your bug report? > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <title>test</title> > <select size=1> > <optgroup label=jkldf> > <option>hello > </optgroup> > </select> But your example, David, unless you deliberately over-ride the Validator's DOCTYPE sniffing, will check the document against an editor's draft of the provisional HTML 5 specification; Mr Geis, on the other hand, specifically cited the HTML 4.01 specification, so a valid comparison would require an HTML 4.01 compliant example with appropriate DOCTYPE. Philip Taylor -------- On 15 Apr 2014, at 23:16, Ken Geis wrote: >> I got the following error when validating my document. The HTML >> 4.01 spec says that the select element must contain an option, but >> it does not say that it must be a child of the select element. The >> validator throws the message when all options are inside optgroups, >> and I think that should not be an error.
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