Scott,
That attribute is most likely being injected by your text editor. And it
most likely only has a meaning inside that editor You would find that if you
try to validate this page it will throw up unknown attribute error.
The following provides information on how browsers handle unknown attributes
and elements:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ThoughtExperimentInGracefulDegradation
Regards
Mevlana
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:27 PM, wsg@webstandardsgroup.org wrote:
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From: Scott Elcomb pse...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:18:11 -0400
Subject: [Slightly OT]: hasbox tag attribute?
Hi all,
I've been trying to find more information about a tag attribute I
wasn't really aware of until today, called 'hasbox'. Originally I
suspected Internet Explorer, but when I look in either of the Firebug
or Google Chrome consoles, I'm seeing this attribute being injected on
all kinds of tags.
Here's what I think I know:
* I don't believe apache is injecting this before sending to the
client (I'll be /very/ surprised if that's the case)
* I don't believe jQuery (used in the site's construction) is at
fault; grep doesn't find hasbox in the source files.
* Despite showing up across multiple browsers, I don't believe it's a
standard attribute (documentation would be easier to locate)
I've asked on stackoverflow, so far without response:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6268640/html-attribute-hasbox
An appeal on twitter (linking to the above url) turned up nothing.
Does anyone know what this attribute is/does and from whence it comes?
TIA,
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