XHTML 1.0 Transitional validation

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 6:24 pm (21 years, 3 months ago)

I'm trying to validate a page to XHTML 1.0 Transitional

but get this error with the following code: document type does not allow element "a" here

Code:

Do I take it that you can't put links in text areas?
If so does anyone know of of an way around this, apart from the obvious of just making a table and constructing the html using the relevant character codes (like the code function on phpbb).

N.B. In case you hadn't guessed its for a piece of copy and paste code

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

I am pretty sure that the only way would be to type in the appropriate character codes (& &), if it is the case that in XHTML an <a> tag is not allowed in a <textarea> tag.

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 7:07 pm (21 years, 3 months ago)

Thats what I thought - in which case it can wait for another day Very Happy

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 2:32 pm (21 years, 3 months ago)

The textarea cannot contain other XHTML 1.0 elements, plaintext yes. I would like to know what exactly you were trying to achieve, if it were purely stylistic in nature you could have used CSS to create a <div> of a given dimension which would allow scrollbars, or borders if you required them, for example:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Overflow to Scroll...</title>
<style
type="text/css">

</style>
</head>

<body>
<div
class="auto">
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Praesent imperdiet, nunc nec cursus sagittis, diam ipsum
mattis turpis, non blandit wisi quam ut dolor. Nullam quis
leo vitae orci tristique commodo. Donec mauris elit, mollis
vel, pharetra sit amet, sodales ac, nisl. Pellentesque tempus
nisl quis sapien gravida bibendum. Integer quis libero sit
amet odio lobortis rhoncus. Ut eu lectus. Proin augue wisi,
semper quis, dictum vitae, fermentum nec, nibh. Vestibulum
scelerisque, diam sed mattis mollis, elit magna aliquam sem,
eget imperdiet felis pede at metus. Curabitur pharetra
imperdiet augue. Duis dignissim dapibus mauris. Etiam quis
quam ac nibh commodo porttitor.
</div>
</body>
</html>

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

I think you're probably right, it probably is purely stylistic: see http://www.fancy-rats.co.uk/resources/usefullinks/banners.php .

With your solution, you end up not using a textarea, but it's good all the same! Smile

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2003 4:41 pm (21 years, 3 months ago)

I was only using textarea as it displayed the HTML rather than rendering it.
I'm certainly not bothered about having scroll bars infact it'll better wioth out them.
I will have a play around with this later.
Very Happy