[thelist] Custom HTML Attributes and W3C
Stephen Rider
evolt_org at striderweb.com
Mon May 10 09:05:30 CDT 2004
This, of course, means that you /could/ in theory create your own
custom DTD that includes your custom tags. It seems it would be a lot
of work, however, unless you have a very specific reason to need to do
this. Browsers, of course, would not support your custom tags.
Probably easiest to use <div>s and <span>s with class and id attributes.
Steve
On May 9, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Bob Easton wrote:
> Hershel Robinson wrote:
>> I am under the impression (
>> http://www.quirksmode.org/about/quirksmode.html ) that custom
>> attributes
>> will not validate according to the W3C. Can anyone confirm this and
>> provide
>> a clear reference from the W3C itself as the veracity of this?
>> Thanks,
>> Hershel
> Validation is a comparison of actual code with the code described in a
> Data Type Definition, DTD, the second part of the !DOCTYPE statement.
> There are a limited number of standard DTDs. If you have a custom
> attribute, that means it is not in any DTD. Hence, the custom
> attribute won't validate.
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