Re: validation error

Andrea Nenci <andrea.nenci@uniecampus.it>, 2018-03-01 18:39 +0100:
> Archived-At: <https://www.w3.org/mid/!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAEogD9d5nQBEpqiDjfUFMMvCgAAAEAAAALHGFvyTKexEjWm4Upd27k8BAAAAAA==@uniecampus.it>
> ...
> <form action="/action_page.php">
> 
>   Country code: <input type="text" name="country_code"
>   pattern="[A-Za-z]{3}" title="Three letter country code">
> ...
> 
> I’ll receive this error:
> 
> Error: Bad value [A-Za-z]{3} for attribute pattern on element
> <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/single-page.html#the-input-element>
> input: Unterminated string constant.
>
> ...
> I never see this before. It’s a bug or something change in pattern in html?

That was caused by a bug in the validator code that I’ve since fixed.
Thanks for having take time to report it. If you re-check your document
with the validator, it should no longer report that error

-- 
Michael[tm] Smith https://people.w3.org/mike