Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/30/06 12:13

BKDotCom wrote:
> Pedro Graca wrote:
>
>>The following line is perfectly valid HTML (I think in any version)
>>
>> <input type="text" name="x><y" id="xy">
>
>
> I would have to disagree
> <input type="text" name="x> is invalid: no closing quote around
> name value
> <y" id="xy"> is invalid. y" isn't a valid cname (only
> alphanumeric?)
>
> if you want 'x><y' as a value you'd need to use name="x&gt;&lt;y"
>

Actually, it is legal. name="x><y" is a perfectly valid tag and value.
&lt; and &gt; aren't required here because they are within a quoted
string in a tag.

You do need &lt; and &gt; in plain text, however, when they may be
mistaken for the start/end of a tag.

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