That's odd? According to the w3c: 'XHTML documents must use lower case for all HTML element and attribute names. This difference is necessary because XML is case-sensitive e.g. <li> and <LI> are different tags.'
ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.2 Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com On 7/31/07, spinnach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it works that way.. how come ? > > dennis. > > John Resig wrote: > > What if you do @maxLength and .attr('maxLength') ? > > > > --John > > > > On 7/31/07, spinnach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i think i've come across a tiny bug in jquery 1.1.3.1, > >> $('[EMAIL PROTECTED]) return an empty array, although there is such > a > >> textarea in the dom.. also $('textarea').attr('maxlength') returns > >> nothing also.. this worked before in 1.1.2 ... > >> > >> and i know this is invalid xhtml, but we had a need for such a thing in > >> the backend, to limit the number of chars users can input.. > >> > >> dennis. > >> > > > >