[Javascript] How to get valid XHTML when links contain "invalid characters"

[Jonathan Gold]

I find another thing you can do is wrap the javascript anchor links as
CDATA sections, thus:


						// <![CDATA[
							<a href="javascript:viewMapWin('http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&address=400+East+Church+Street&city=Frederick&state=MD&zipcode=21701')">view
a map</a>
	//]]>

Sorry about the length of that line. Anyhow, the links still work (I'm
in FF 1.5) and the W3C Validator passes it.

On 1/31/06, Roger Roelofs <rer at datacompusa.com> wrote:
> Janie,
>
> On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:12 PM, Janie Hadsel wrote:
>
> > This may be OT, but I've been trying to get a page with links to
> > Mapquest URLs to validate according to the W3C. Since they are
> > external links I've used Javascript to open them in new windows, and I
> > was surprised to find that the W3C validator still viewed them as
> > XHTML when they were passed to a Javascript function. Any ideas?
> >
> >  Here's the link: http://www.gimv.org/contact/locations.htm
>
> the & is a special character.  To validate replace then with &amp;
> Also, it would be better to write the a element like this...
>
> <a
> href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&amp;
> searchtype=address&amp;country=US&amp;addtohistory=&amp;
> address=400+East+Church+Street&amp;city=Frederick&amp;state=MD&amp;
> zipcode=21701" class="maplink">view a map</a>
>
> See <http://adactio.com/atmedia2005/> for a good example.
>
> // add this to the script in the head section
> function doMapLinks() {
>    if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return false;
>    var links = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
>    for (var i=0; i < links.length; i++) {
>      if (links[i].className.match("maplink")) {
>        links[i].onclick = function() {
>          viewMapWin(this.href);
>          return false;
>        }
>      }
>    }
> }
> window.onload = doMapLinks;
>
> --
> Roger Roelofs
> Datacomp Appraisal Services
>
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