No, why is THIS not valid

cg9com · 11-29-2002, 05:05 PM

xhtml10 strict:

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<a style="color:white" href="'+'mailto:'+'cg9com'+'@'+'juno.com'+'">'+'cg9com'+'@'+'juno.com'+'</a>');
</script>

brothercake · 11-29-2002, 05:47 PM

Unless i'm much mistaken, inline javascript is not permitted in XHTML. If you put that code in an external .js file, it should validate fine.

BrainJar · 11-29-2002, 06:14 PM

There's no explicit restriction on using inline scripts with XHTML, but any occurance of "<" or ">" in the script code will cause a problem.

To get around that you can use a CDATA section:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[

 document.write('<a style="color:white" href="'+'mailto:'+'cg9com'+'@'+'juno.com'+'">'+'cg9com'+'@'+'juno.com'+'</a>'); 

// ]]></script>

Text within a CDATA section will be ignored by the XML parser.

Also, if you use document.write() to generate HTML dynamically, you need to be sure that HTML is valid.

brothercake · 11-29-2002, 08:27 PM

That's interesting; presumably you could also use entities to make it valid, like with XPath?

cg9com · 11-30-2002, 12:39 AM

thanks alot