[thelist] .Net generated HTML not validating - help?

Alastair Moore alastair at transmogrify.co.uk
Wed Oct 5 15:58:09 CDT 2005


Chris George wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>  
> I'm not the .Net developer here, I am, however, pretty much everything
> else web related... and after running a site through the W3C validator,
> I just can't let development continue in it's current state.
>  
> One of the errors is that we've got elements like these everywhere:
>  
> <tr id="_e3f0c7f7c1b76536_Repeater1__ctl0_Tr1">
> 
> And thus we have error messages like this from the validator:
> 
> value of attribute "ID" invalid: "_" cannot start a name.
>  
> So... my question is: is this important to fix? If so, what can we do to
> fix it?
>  
> Any takers?

I believe .net 1.x validates to html 4.01 but not xhtml (if thats what 
you're trying to validate to?)
>  
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