[sclug] XHTML Question

[Matthew Browning]

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On Friday 20 June 2003 01:01, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi All
>
> 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?


The obvious fix would be to put an <option> in there when the page 
loads with something like `-- SELECT --' in there and a value of 
nothing.  Modify the JavaScript to replace this whenever it populates 
the box.

Its an interesting question since the page `becomes' valid when it is 
actually used so is clearly in the spirit of XHTML; in this sense, is 
it that different to a document containing PHP scripting - you can't 
validate it as is but the final output is (might be) compliant?

Matthew Browning.

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