Validator says: SHORTTAG YES must be specified

[d1n1_81]

Hi there,

In some of the content of one of my pages, when validating I get the following problem:

Line 73, column 53: the name and VI delimiter can be omitted from an attribute specification only if SHORTTAG YES is specified

<input name="17th_April_" type="radio" checked value="Available" />

This is part of a form with some checkboxes and the issue seems to be with assigning some of the checkboxes to appear already 'checked'. Can you advise on how I can correct this problem?

Any speedy help will be greatly appreciated - I have been trying for quite a while to solve this but have been unable to.

Many thanks in advance,
D1n1_81

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[edited by: tedster at 3:45 pm (utc) on Mar. 13, 2005]

[encyclo]

Are you using HTML 4.01? If so, you should remove the trailing slash, as that is only used in XHTML. The validator's error message, whilst technically correct, is pretty obtuse.

<input name="17th_April_" type="radio" checked value="Available">

[Captaffy]

Instead of just checked, try checked="checked"

In fact, I'm pretty sure that's the problem.
The error is saying that you can't use the short version of that attribute with the currrent doctype.

[encyclo]

Thanks for the correction, Captaffy, I believe you're quite right. Just ignore what I said, d1n1_81! :)