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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 10/01/99 12:01
On Jan 26, 4:55 pm, Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.com> wrote:
> I V wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:49:13 -0500, Jeff wrote:
> >> Why not? If I want to validate the page as I'm working on it I won't
> >> have to wade through the 47 errors the validator thinks it sees in the
> >> javascript where I'm assembling bits of html.
>
> > What validator are you using? In HTML (but not XHTML), the content of a
> > script element is already considered CDATA, so the validator shouldn't
> > complain about HTML fragments in the script. I've just checked the W3C's
> > validator and it thinks this is valid, for instance:
>
> The W3C's.
>
> What happens is that I'm concatenating strings (content += ...) and
> it's complaining about closing tags that aren't open (the are opened on
> another line). I didn't expect that, I validated it because of the
> problem in the next thread and I was surprised to see all that. I've
> never used CDATA so I though it was time to learn. I was wrong!
>
> I think I'll just take cwdjrxyz'z advice and ignore them for now. It
> will of course wind up in an external file when I get done with writing it.
See http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/problems.html and read the
section in it concerning javascript errors. One of the most common
validation errors is not backslashing when using a document.write
within a javascript. This reference discusses why this is required.
However the script will work on many, if not most, browsers in current
use if you neglect to do so.
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
> > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <title>I AM YOUR DOCUMENT TITLE REPLACE ME</title>
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > document.write('<foobar>');
> > </script>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <p>
> > Something in the body.
> > </p>
> > </body>
> > </html>
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