Use of the element iframe in xhtml 1.1

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Use of the element iframe in xhtml 1.1

Please, I am not a programmer, all I want to do is use iframes on my wordpress blog which is validating as xhtml 1.1.

If I use the iframe I am not validating. I get the error element "iframe" undefined

Amazon.com, widgets and astore links all come as framesets or iframes. Can someone help me please.

The iframe element is not part of XHTML 1.1. Either Amazon etc. are using a different doctype, or their web pages would not validate. I guess those are basically your choices.

EDIT: actually, there is some talk in the specification about customizing XHTML. I'm not familiar with this sort of thing but perhaps you could look into whether it would allow you to modify the DTD to include the iframe element.

David Zaslavsky 2010-04-17 23:59:22

David, thank you very much for that response, BUT, going to the link provided was of no use to me, only because nothing made sense to me. I am a 64 year old lay person, and just want to know how to use an iframe on my blog and have it validated as an xhtml 1.1 document at the same time. I ask this because I have visited blogs that use the very same Amazon.com links and they are validated for xhtml 1.1. I am using the iframes with no problem, BUT I would also like to be validated. The iframe is the only error that is preventing my blog from being validated.

Noel Benjamin DCosta 2010-04-18 00:24:19

@Noel Benjamin DCosta: I understand your situation of not having the background knowledge to understand the XHTML specification. But that sort of situation is a frequent occurrence for those of us who do programming or web development, and it falls on us to do whatever research is necessary to understand the document. Would you rather I just tell you that it's impossible? Because honestly, that is the answer. The `iframe` element is not valid XHTML 1.1. (If you edit your question to include a link to one of these blogs that apparently uses it, maybe we could tell you what's going on.)

David Zaslavsky 2010-04-18 01:23:22

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