[sclug] XHTML Question

[Lars Haggqvist]

Oops! Strictly it's not 'in the spec' just a recommendation 
see

HTML Compatibility Guidelines section:
  C.2. Empty Elements at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines

Lars

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:03:02 +0100
>From: Lars Haggqvist <larshaggqvist at onetel.net.uk>  
>Subject: Re: [sclug] XHTML Question  
>To: suttont at onetel.net.uk
>
>Have you tried <select /> ? According to the spec, empty 
>elements sould be closed with a ' /'
>
>HTH
>
>Lars
>
>
>---- Original message ----
>>Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:01:17 +0100
>>From: Tim Sutton <suttont at onetel.net.uk>  
>>Subject: [sclug] XHTML Question  
>>To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
>>
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>>Hi All
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>>I am trying to make an xhtml compliant page so that I can 
>put the nice little 
>>w3c xhtml 'tick' logo at the bottom. Everything in the 
page 
>is compliant, 
>>except in som cases I create an empty select box that get 
>populated by 
>>javascript after the page has been loaded through user 
>interaction. So 
>>according to the w3c validator both:
>>
>><select>
>></select>
>>
>>and 
>>
>><select/>
>>
>>Are not valid. Does anyone have a clever way of including 
>an empty select box 
>>and still maintaining a valid xhtml page?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Tim
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