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Is the following valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional?

Answer 1

+3 A:

All browsers will take this, but to make it valid X(HT)ML you need to put the Javascript code in a CDATA block.

Bart van Heukelom 2010-06-17 13:01:17

Answer 2

+1 A:

Even in javascript w3c validator don't like ampersands. Try to comment your javascript from validator

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
    <head>
        <title>Page Title</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <script type="text/javascript">
        //<![CDATA[//><!--
           function search(query) {
             redir = "http://search.mysite.com/search?s=FIN&amp;ref=&amp;q=" + query;
             window.location.href = redir
             return false;
            }
        //--><!]]>
        </script>

        <span>This is all valid HTML</span>

    </body>
</html>

antyrat 2010-06-17 13:02:06

Answer 3

+1 A:

No, it is indeed not valid. If you want to use in-line JavaScript in an XHTML file, you'll need to wrap the JavaScript in CDATA. If you don't want to do that, then you're stuck with encoding &, < and >, which in JavaScript can be quite a pain.

ErikHeemskerk 2010-06-17 13:02:19

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