brian thank you. as usual, I am late to the game and dragged kicking and screaming. 8-)
although I find uppercase tags easier to parse in long docs I have heard and will obey thanks for the info bruce On Sep 30, 5:36 am, Brian Frick <brianfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > When I first started coding HTML in 1992, tags were uppercase. In fact, you > can read more here: > > http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_elements.asp > > As of HTML 4 (1999), the W3C (the group that dictates HTML standards) > recommended lowercase tags; HTML5 and XHTML require lowercase tags to > validate. There's nothing stopping you from using uppercase tags in HTML, but > if validation is needed, you shouldn't. > > I hope that clarifies. > > -- > Brian Frick > > On Sep 29, 2011, at 11:45 PM, blinde <bruce.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > john > > > ok, so now I'm confused. if tags are supposed to be lower case, why > > does bbedit offer a palette button to make tags upper case? also, the > > HTML spec shows attributes as lower case, but all of their examples > > have upper case tags > > > I don't mind learning something new... no matter how much it hurts! > > > please advise (although my question stands) > > > thx > > bruce > > > On Sep 29, 12:19 pm, John Delacour <johndelac...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> At 11:40 -0700 29/9/11, blinde wrote: > > >>> actually, i use the utilities palette... but i'm looking for a setting > >>> so i don't have to do this manually... i would always get upper case > >>> tags... anyone else? > > >> If Barebones were ever to make it possible to have upper case tags > >> inserted with their markup utilities, I'd suspect Rich had already > >> been sedated. Do you write your validated code in HTML 4.01 (1999) > >> or HTML5? If not then they're illegal. > > >> JD > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. > > To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> > > If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, > > please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. > > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
