The Struts doc does suggest that <html:xhtml /> should cause the <form> tag to be XHTML compliant but for some reason it does not. The W3C XHTML validator also does not like the Struts output of the <input> elements. Struts does not close them: <input ... />.
--Marty --- Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 December 2004 08:51, William Ferguson wrote: > > I noticed that the html generated form the <html:form> tag is not > valid > > HTML according to the W3C validation service > (http://validator.w3.org). It > > generates a <form> tag with a 'name' attribute which has been > deprecated. > > > > Since I'm striving to conform to relevant standards as best as > possible, I > > was wondering whether anyone else had faced the same issue and what > > approach had been taken. > > > > If I don't use the <html:form> tag then I can't use other tags like > > <html:select> etc, which means a fair bit of messing about for > drop-downs. > > > > Does anyone else bother with HTML validation? > > And if so, how do you handle Forms and Form elements? > > Don't you need to use <html:xhtm/l> or <html:html xhtml="true"> to get > full > standards compliance? > > From the Struts Developer guide: "The output is HTML 4.01 compliant or > XHTML > 1.0 when in XHTML mode. " > -- > derek > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
