On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 21:53, Johnson, Christopher (MTO) wrote: > My question then is if I am using the doctype for 4.0, which I quite > obviously am, why does the W3C validator attempt to validate the page > against html 4.01? It doesn't. That is why the name attribute, which exists in 4.01 but not 4.0 is marked as invalid. > In addition, how much difference can there be between > HTML 4.0 Transitional and HTML 4.01 Transitional? A fair bit. 4.01 was a bug fix release, and there were quite a few bugs. http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/changes.html#h-A.1 -- David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>