Re: target is invalid attribute for a

David Dorward wrote:
>
> On 23 Jan 2018, at 16:07, Philip Taylor (RHUoL) wrote:
>
>     I would suspect an inappropriate DOCTYPE.  The following is valid :
>
>     <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN">
>
> That causes the validator to chuck a massive warning because /the 
> Document Type (-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN) is not in the 
> validator's catalog/.
>

I sucessfully validated the code I cited using direct input.  There were 
three warnings, but the conclusion was :

>
>       Congratulations
>
> The uploaded document was successfully checked as -//W3C//DTD HTML 
> 4.01 Strict//EN. This means that the resource in question identified 
> itself as "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN" and that we successfully 
> performed a formal validation of it. The parser implementations we 
> used for this check are based on OpenSP 
> <http://openjade.sourceforge.net/> (SGML/XML).
>

Philip Taylor

Received on Tuesday, 23 January 2018 16:36:59 UTC