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Posted by one Raphael
Hiya!
I wonder if anyone here can spot, at a glance, why this code would fail to validate:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD xhtml 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="blah.shtml" title="target blank this smeggin thing" onclick="self.target=blank">close</a>
</body>
</html>
It's a variation of something I found here
Also, I found another webpage which says that the following will validate:
<a href="xjkwx" title="close this window" onclick="window.self.close()">close</a>
It doesn't - at least not for 1.1 (the page says it will for 1.0).
What the heck is going on here?
Also, can anyone recommend any good books for learning xhtml? Somethign in the WROX style (examples first, explanations second, rather than the traditional explanation first, followed by [only if you're lucky] examples).
The answer to this is:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD xhtml 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<meta name="description" content=""/>
<meta name="keywords" content=""/>
<title>title</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href="blah.shtml" title="target blank this smeggin thing" onclick="self.target=blank">close</a></p> <!--the a attribute should be inside a defining tag-->
</body>
</html>
