[Javascript] OT: gmail formatting problems

[Jonathan Gold]

Sorry, Paul; not that I know of.

On 1/24/06, Paul Novitski <paul at novitskisoftware.com> wrote:
> On all the listserves I belong to, you can always
> tell the gmail subscribers even without checking
> the header because their postings arrive stripped of carriage returns.
>
> Is there a gmail setting they can use to correct this problem?
>
> Or are they in fact using a newline code that my
> Eudora 6 isn't parsing correctly?
>
> I can find scattered references to this problem
> on the web, but as yet no solutions, including on google's site.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>
> At 09:33 AM 1/24/2006, Jonathan Gold wrote:
> >Hi! I have some older web pages that use forms
> >and on each one of them I refer to a function
> >that clears the entries,
> >thus:             function
> >clearColors()       {             for (var i =
> >0; i < 3;
> >i++)             {
> >document.formColors.elements[i].value="";
> >}       } And in the markup I use the
> >following:             <form id="formColors"
> >name="formColors" action=""> And when I click on
> >a button that says to clear the entries, the
> >three text input boxes are cleared. Here's the
> >whole page:
> >http://home.pacbell.net/jonnygee/auxiliary/colorpage.htm
> >PROBLEM: nowadays, I am trying to write valid
> >XHTML. I seem to need the form's NAME attribute
> >for the purpose of the javascript, but the HTML
> >validator tells me: <quote> This page is not
> >Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict! Below are the results of
> >checking this document for XML well-formedness
> >and validity.    1. Error Line 104 column 27:
> >there is no attribute "name".       <form
> >id="formColors" name="formColors"
> >action="">       You have used the attribute
> >named above in your document, but the document
> >type you are using does not support that
> >attribute for this element… </quote> The upshot
> >is that the 'name' attribute has been replaced
> >with the 'id' attribute. In fact, that's why I
> >added an id attribute in my form tag. But
> >without the name attribute my javascript doesn't
> >function. So here's the QUESTION: How can I
> >refer to the form, using its 'id' attribute, in
> >my clearColors code at the top of this message.
> >Thanks for any help you can give, Jonathan
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Jonathan Gold
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