On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:22:28PM -0400, Michael Marrotte wrote: > I want an item selected... I just don't want it selected like that, > i.e. selected="selected". I don't understand why it's generated > this way. Why not just selected?
It's for XHTML compliance. SGML (and HTML) supports (as you know) attributes with no value, but XML (and XHTML) requires a value enclosed in double quotes for every attribute of a tag. Also, XML is supposed to be case-sensitive, and they chose all-lowercase tags and attributes. The XTML spec says to use, e.g. selected="selected" or noshade="noshade" for an XHTML attribute where the old HTML attribute had an implied value of "true" whenever the attribute was present. They presumably tested a bunch of browsers to make sure this was backward-compatible before recommending it. :) See <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.5> for the actual recommendation. -- Jonathan Fuerth - SQL Power Group Inc. (416)218-5551 (Toronto); 1-866-SQL-POWR (Toll-Free) Unleash the Power of your Corporate Data - http://www.sqlpower.ca/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
