Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/20/06 06:00

Scripsit David Wright:

> I just noticed that Dreamweaver is putting an input attribute in my
> input tag:

Educated guess: It's used for Dreamweaver's internal bookkeeping and ignored
by any other software. Web editors have such features - which is _bad_ since
they thus rely on the principle "ignore unknown attributes", but some day
someone may create a browser or other program that recognizes the "unknown"
attribute in a particular meaning, and there you go. It also surprises
people, as we can see.

> Also, what is the / doing at the end of the tag?

It's a holy incantation for worshipping XML. Probably, but far from
certainly, Dreamweaver generates XHTML markup in general.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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