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  • WindAndWaves
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    html strict

    Hi Guys

    I have recently changed a site from html to php. In my HTML, I used the

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
    "HTTP://WWW.W3.ORG/TR/HTML4/STRICT.DTD">

    header and I made sure that the page was validated.

    I now do not seem to be able to validate my page any longer because I use a
    literal ampersand (&) in one of the links.

    What should I do to make it work?

    TIA

    - Nicolaas



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    • rf
      #2
      Re: html strict

      "WindAndWav es" <access@ngaru.c om> wrote
      [color=blue]
      > I now do not seem to be able to validate my page any longer because I use[/color]
      a[color=blue]
      > literal ampersand (&) in one of the links.
      >
      > What should I do to make it work?[/color]

      &amp;

      --
      Cheers
      Richard.


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        • Jukka K. Korpela
          #3
          Re: html strict

          "WindAndWav es" <access@ngaru.c om> wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > I have recently changed a site from html to php. In my HTML, I used
          > the
          >
          > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
          > "HTTP://WWW.W3.ORG/TR/HTML4/STRICT.DTD">
          >
          > header and I made sure that the page was validated.[/color]

          The above document type declaration is not correct. In a document type
          declaration, the strings within quotation marks are case sensitive.
          A validator may choose to use the first one (the formal public identifier)
          and not even look at the second one, but declaration is still incorrect and
          may trigger "quirks mode" in browsers (though nobody really knows how they
          do their doctype sniffing in detail).
          [color=blue]
          > I now do not seem to be able to validate my page any longer because I
          > use a literal ampersand (&) in one of the links.[/color]

          As "rf" wrote, use &amp; instead. I'm pretty sure the validator's error
          message said the same, though perhaps in more general terms. See also the
          FAQ entry http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-ampersand which refers
          to the http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/valida...blems.html#amp

          This has nothing to do with PHP, so I have trimmed followups to alt.html.

          --
          Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
          Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html


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