Tidy & inline style

[Schraalhans Keukenmeester]

I recently discovered the value of tidy for my html adventures. Nice
little app. Only one thing is becoming a bit of a drag.

If I use tidy to clean up my code, it inserts the following in every
<style> segment:

e.g. before:

<style>
p {
color : blue;
}
</style>
after: (tidy -im myfile.html)

<style>
/*<![CDATA[*/
p {
color : blue;
}

/*]]>*/
</style>

I'm assuming (correctly?) these are supposed to be html comment markers
to hide the style from style-unaware browsers ?
Is it possible (how) to have tidy insert the proper <!-- and -->
instead? And without the /* and */, or should they be there ??? And
should the html comment markers not sit outside the <style> element?

I'm confused right now...

Sorry for asking a question with a probably obvious answer.
KR
Sh.

[em]

The CDATA part is an XML construct to handle text strings that does not
need to follow the same rules as everything else. They are there so
that an XML parser can see that it's dealing with content that it
should just skip past. Without using Tidy I can guess that it's adding
the CDATA part to XHTML documents just to make sure they can be parsed
with an XML parser as intended. Hope that helped you somewhat.

--
Emil Stenström
http://friendlybit.com

Schraalhans Keukenmeester wrote:

I recently discovered the value of tidy for my html adventures. Nice
little app. Only one thing is becoming a bit of a drag.

If I use tidy to clean up my code, it inserts the following in every
<style> segment:

e.g. before:

<style>
p {
color : blue;
}
</style>
after: (tidy -im myfile.html)

<style>
/*<![CDATA[*/
p {
color : blue;
}

/*]]>*/
</style>

I'm assuming (correctly?) these are supposed to be html comment markers
to hide the style from style-unaware browsers ?
Is it possible (how) to have tidy insert the proper <!-- and -->
instead? And without the /* and */, or should they be there ??? And
should the html comment markers not sit outside the <style> element?

I'm confused right now...

Sorry for asking a question with a probably obvious answer.
KR
Sh.

[Schraalhans Keukenmeester]

[e-mail] wrote:

The CDATA part is an XML construct to handle text strings that does not
need to follow the same rules as everything else. They are there so
that an XML parser can see that it's dealing with content that it
should just skip past. Without using Tidy I can guess that it's adding
the CDATA part to XHTML documents just to make sure they can be parsed
with an XML parser as intended. Hope that helped you somewhat.

--
Emil Stenström
http://friendlybit.com

Thanks for clearing that mystery up. Also explains why I found multiple
docs on the web containing the same construction. And save me from
removing that bit each and every time. :-)

KR
Sh.

PS. Most people -including myself- would rather see you reply below
original postings. Please be so kind and set your newsproggy
accordingly. Most offer you a choice between top or bottom reply.

[Gérard Talbot]

Schraalhans Keukenmeester wrote :

I recently discovered the value of tidy for my html adventures. Nice
little app. Only one thing is becoming a bit of a drag.

If I use tidy to clean up my code, it inserts the following in every
<style> segment:

e.g. before:

<style>
p {
color : blue;
}
</style>

This is called embedded stylesheet or local stylesheet; not inline style.

after: (tidy -im myfile.html)

<style>
/*<![CDATA[*/
p {
color : blue;
}

/*]]>*/
</style>

I'm assuming (correctly?) these are supposed to be html comment markers
to hide the style from style-unaware browsers ?
Actually, they are not. They are used (sole purpose) to escape
occurences of "<", ">" and "&" in XHTML documents.
This section explains:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/#h-4.8

Is it possible (how) to have tidy insert the proper <!-- and -->
instead?

Non-capable CSS browsers which fail to ignore <style> blocks are no
longer in use. So,
<!-- ... -->
inside <style> blocks are no longer necessary and should be dropped.

So, those comment delimiters are no longer serving any useful purpose
inside <style> blocks.
And without the /* and */, or should they be there ??? And
should the html comment markers not sit outside the <style> element?

Ideally, Tidy should have spotted
<style>
and recommend to the user to use
<style type="text/css">

Gérard
--
remove blah to email me

[Emil Stenström]

> PS. Most people -including myself- would rather see you reply below

original postings. Please be so kind and set your newsproggy
accordingly. Most offer you a choice between top or bottom reply.

I'm acctually using Google Groups :) I'll think of that in the future.

--
Emil Stenström
http://friendlybit.com