DZone Snippets: xhtml code

target= not valid in XHTML

Booma (Alan Coleman) — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:16:55 GMT

Used for pages with strict doctypes (i.e. no target="_blank"). Automagically adds them back in to links with rel="external"



function externalLinks() {

 if (!document.getElementsByTagName) return;

 var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("a");

 for (var i=0; i   var anchor = anchors[i];

   if (anchor.getAttribute("href") && anchor.getAttribute("rel") == "external") {

     anchor.target = "_blank";

    }



}

}

window.onload = externalLinks;



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Form name not valid in strict XHTML

Booma (Alan Coleman) — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:08:39 GMT

'name' is not valid in strict XHTML. So instead use the id





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Javascript commands from 'a' tags rather than buttons

Booma (Alan Coleman) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:23:49 GMT

In this instance the relevant form is called 'search_form'. This is specified in the a tag version because it's not an input and as such cannot have submit or reset associated with it.



    	

   	

    	



Could be shown as:



        Search	

	Reset

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Okay, as pointed out by Blonkm this is bad for usability. A better way of doing things would be like this:







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Conditional comment

Booma (Alan Coleman) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:14:46 GMT

From the microsoft website. Better than browser sniffing, the content within the tags will be shown if the condition within [] is met, in the this case IE, but you could also use IE 7 for example



  



  





and the XSL version



  [if IE 7]>

    Content <![endif]

When producing XHTML output with XSL files, you have to use

Booma (Alan Coleman) — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:22:17 GMT

The method="xml" is needed if you want XHTML valid output, "xhtml" is not a valid parameter.

The encoding="us-ascii" is needed if you want pound, euro, nbsp and any other html entities to show up correctly.