On Dec 1, 2009, at 7:05 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 06/11/09 17:50, Ben Fritz wrote: >> >> On Nov 6, 10:34 am, Ben Fritz<fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Incidentally, your example html may need some attention. Have you >>> validated your markup? I don't remember if html requires it, but at >>> the very least it's good practice (and required by xhtml) to quote >>> all >>> your attribute values, like this: >>> >>> <tr><td><code><a "href=http://www.somesite.com/directoy"; >>> style="text-decoration:none">description</a> >>> </code></td><td>quanity</td></tr> >> >> Whoops, like this: >> >> <tr><td><code><a href="http://www.somesite.com/directoy"; >> style="text-decoration:none">description</a> >> </code></td><td>quanity</td></tr> > > In non-X HTML, quotes are not necessary unless you want to include > spaces etc.
But they're ALWAYS advisable, or you can run into some *very* hard- to-diagnose bugs. This page <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/qattr.html> tells why. For example, the following chunk of HTML validates, even though it is manifestly wrong: <a href=../test/abug.html> <img alt="Yucca" src=../yucca.gif aling=right></a> <a href=foo.html>bar</a> More amazing, the fact that it validates is _not_ a bug in the validator, but is because of the little-known "SHORTTAG" feature of HTML, which (if it was supported *at all* in browsers) would allow you to write this: <em/foo/ instead of <em>foo</em> It's kind of the ultimate version of self-closing tags. As a result of it, the little chunk of HTML above, in the eyes of the validator (which, because it is NOT a browser, so it follows ALL of the arcane rules of HTML), is equivalent to this: <a href=..>test</a>abug.html> <img alt="Yucca" src=..>yucca.gif aling=right> <a href=foo.html>bar</a> Which is clearly not what was intended. Quoting the attributes would have allowed the validator to notice that the "align" attribute is misspelled. Bottom line: quote your attributes. The time you save leaving out the quotes won't be worth it. Dave -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
