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Posted by richard on 12/18/07 16:12
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:04:35 -0500, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote:
>richard wrote:
>> are the quotes in like class="name" absolutely necessary?
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>In XHTML, yes. In HTML, not if the name consists of only letters,
>digits, underscores, hyphens, periods, and colons.
>
>But it's still good practice to use them. It makes your code more
>readable, because inconsistency makes code more difficult to read. You
>*will* need quotes, for example, for URLs that contain slashes, text
>field values that include spaces, and so forth. It also makes the code
>easier to write: you don't have to keep thinking, for each attribute,
>"Wait, can I get by without quotes on this one?" It's more flexible
>because, for example, you can use multiple classes as in
>class="thisclass thatclass" without making them a special case.
>
>Besides, why would you want to omit them?
Just curious. I've run a page I'm working on through the validator and
it doesn't seem to care about that.
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