On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Steve Krulewitz wrote: > I've been using the XMLSerializer to serialize xhtml (set up in a > similar way as the stock distribution's root sitemap), but I'm running > into some problems with the way empty elements are treated, specifically > the script and textarea tags. The XMLSerializer will render the empty > element as: > > <textarea /> > > But according to the Dev Guru XHTML reference's page on the textarea > element [1], a separate closing tag is mandatory: > > <textarea></textarea> > > Browsers seem to agree with this -- textarea tags and script tags > rendered without a separate closing tag are just ignored. > > What can be done about this sort of inserting spaces between the tags to > force the closing tag to be rendered?
A quick check with the OpenSP validator shows that the <textarea/> is fine with XHTML-1.1. I would expect the same for earlier versions of HTML. Mozilla does indeed render this incorrectly. However, konqueror renders it fine. As a work around, how about placing a non-visible character such as ? -- JP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
