RE: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-12 Thread Frank Palinkas
e's Angels. :-) Frank From: listdad@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tee G. Peng Sent: Monday, 12 February, 2007 9:32 AM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict On Feb 11, 2007, at 11:09 PM, lisa her

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-12 Thread David Dorward
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:57:53PM +1100, Dylan Lindgren wrote: >http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_blockquote.asp > > Differences Between HTML and XHTML > > The tag is supposed to contain only block-level > elements within it, and not just plain text. I see that W3Schools have man

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Feb 11, 2007, at 11:09 PM, lisa herrod wrote: On 12/02/07, John Faulds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm I thought the dash would have thrown an error...? No? It depends whether it's been typed in directly via your keyboard (the key next to the 0) or whether it's a character that's been

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread lisa herrod
On 12/02/07, John Faulds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm I thought the dash would have thrown an error...? No? It depends whether it's been typed in directly via your keyboard (the key next to the 0) or whether it's a character that's been copied from another program (like Word) and needs con

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread John Faulds
Hmmm I thought the dash would have thrown an error...? No? It depends whether it's been typed in directly via your keyboard (the key next to the 0) or whether it's a character that's been copied from another program (like Word) and needs converting to something like – . -- Tyssen Design

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread lisa herrod
On 12/02/07, Tee G. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > " The BLOCKQUOTE element defines a block quotation. Unlike inline > quotations, block quotations may contain block-level elements such > as P > and TABLE, but BLOCKQUOTE may not be contained within a paragraph or > inline element. " > > S

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread Tee G. Peng
" The BLOCKQUOTE element defines a block quotation. Unlike inline quotations, block quotations may contain block-level elements such as P and TABLE, but BLOCKQUOTE may not be contained within a paragraph or inline element. " So, the following will do... "I came because this is one of the

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 10:46 PM Subject: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict Hi, I have a block of text that uses blockquote u "I came because this is one of the best.." - john doe in my markup: "I came because this is one o

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Tee G. Peng wrote: "I came because this is one of the best.." - john doe What am I missing? " The BLOCKQUOTE element defines a block quotation. Unlike inline quotations, block quotations may contain block-level elements such as P and TABLE, but BLOCKQUOTE may not be contained with

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread John Faulds
The has to go inside the blockquote, not the other way around. You probably also want to use the tag instead of a for the name of the quoted person. On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:46:07 +1000, Tee G. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a block of text that uses blockquote u "I came be

Re: [WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread Dylan Lindgren
Hi, Just did some research and found this: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_blockquote.asp Differences Between HTML and XHTML The tag is supposed to contain only block-level elements within it, and not just plain text. To validate the page as strict XHTML, you must add a block-level element

[WSG] blockquote in xhtml strict

2007-02-11 Thread Tee G. Peng
Hi, I have a block of text that uses blockquote u "I came because this is one of the best.." - john doe in my markup: "I came because this is one of the best.." - john doe It gives me validation error: You have used character data somewhere it is not permitted to appear. Mistak