Textarea and valid HTML

[Andrew Poulos]

I'm dynamically populating a TEXTAREA with some info that includes a
URL. Eg.

frm.value = "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >";

but this results in a page that doesn't validate. I tried escaping the
value but then I get entities displaying in the TEXTAREA.

Is there a way to change the value without upsetting the page's validation?

Andrew Poulos

[Randy Webb]

Andrew Poulos said the following on 2/12/2007 10:29 PM:

I'm dynamically populating a TEXTAREA with some info that includes a
URL. Eg.

frm.value = "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >";

but this results in a page that doesn't validate.

What does it complain about? The <url tag?

I tried escaping the value but then I get entities displaying in the TEXTAREA.
Is there a way to change the value without upsetting the page's validation?

Put the script in an external file, the validator will never see it.
--
Randy
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[Andrew Poulos]

Randy Webb wrote:

Andrew Poulos said the following on 2/12/2007 10:29 PM:

>I'm dynamically populating a TEXTAREA with some info that includes a
URL. Eg.

frm.value = "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >";

but this results in a page that doesn't validate.

What does it complain about? The <url tag?

I get 3 specific errors:
- Warning: discarding unexpected </textarea>
- Warning: <url:attribute "http://www.foo.com" lacks value
- Error: <url:is not recognized!

>I tried escaping the value but then I get entities displaying in the
TEXTAREA.
Is there a way to change the value without upsetting the page's
validation?

Put the script in an external file, the validator will never see it.

It's not the script per se but the content of the TEXTAREA that is
causing the validator to barf.

Andrew Poulos

[Ian Collins]

Andrew Poulos wrote:

Randy Webb wrote:

>Andrew Poulos said the following on 2/12/2007 10:29 PM:

>>I'm dynamically populating a TEXTAREA with some info that includes a
URL. Eg.

frm.value = "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >";

but this results in a page that doesn't validate.

What does it complain about? The <url tag?

I get 3 specific errors:
- Warning: discarding unexpected </textarea>
- Warning: <url:attribute "http://www.foo.com" lacks value
- Error: <url:is not recognized!

That's because <url: http://www.foo.com isn't a well formed HTML tag.

>>I tried escaping the value but then I get entities displaying in the
TEXTAREA.
Is there a way to change the value without upsetting the page's
validation?

Put the script in an external file, the validator will never see it.

It's not the script per se but the content of the TEXTAREA that is
causing the validator to barf.

So the validator validating the page after your script has modified it.
If the script where in another file, the validation might not include it.

--
Ian Collins.

[marss]

Andrew Poulos wrote:

>>I get 3 specific errors:
- Warning: discarding unexpected </textarea>
- Warning: <url:attribute "http://www.foo.com" lacks value
- Error: <url:is not recognized!

I guess you use XHTML validation. So validator does not like the
unknown unclosed tag <url:with incorrect attribute. You can avoid it
if you change "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >" to
plain text. Replace < with &lt; and replace with &gt;.

>frm.value = "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >";

frm is textarea, yes?
Try this.
frm.innerHTML = "This is the link to use &lt;url: http://www.foo.com
&gt;";

[Jens Peter Karlsen [FP-MVP]]

Replace < with &lt; and replace with &gt;

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:29:50 +1100, Andrew Poulos
<ap*****@hotmail.comwrote:

>frm.value = "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >";

[Andrew Poulos]

marss wrote:

Andrew Poulos wrote:

>>I get 3 specific errors:
- Warning: discarding unexpected </textarea>
- Warning: <url:attribute "http://www.foo.com" lacks value
- Error: <url:is not recognized!

I guess you use XHTML validation. So validator does not like the
unknown unclosed tag <url:with incorrect attribute. You can avoid it
if you change "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >" to
plain text. Replace < with &lt; and replace with &gt;.

>>frm.value = "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >";

frm is textarea, yes?
Try this.
frm.innerHTML = "This is the link to use &lt;url: http://www.foo.com
&gt;";

Actually, in my initial tests I use the TIDY add-on for FF 2.

Unfortunately I think I have to put up with it not being valid as using
the method above displays &alt; and not < in the TEXTAREA.

Andrew Poulos

[Randy Webb]

Andrew Poulos said the following on 2/13/2007 5:45 AM:

marss wrote:

>Andrew Poulos wrote:

>>>I get 3 specific errors:
- Warning: discarding unexpected </textarea>
- Warning: <url:attribute "http://www.foo.com" lacks value
- Error: <url:is not recognized!

I guess you use XHTML validation. So validator does not like the
unknown unclosed tag <url:with incorrect attribute. You can avoid it
if you change "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >" to
plain text. Replace < with &lt; and replace with &gt;.

>>>frm.value = "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >";

frm is textarea, yes?
Try this.
frm.innerHTML = "This is the link to use &lt;url: http://www.foo.com
&gt;";

Actually, in my initial tests I use the TIDY add-on for FF 2.
Unfortunately I think I have to put up with it not being valid as using
the method above displays &alt; and not < in the TEXTAREA.

What does the W3C Validator say about the same code? If the W3C
Validator doesn't complain but Tidy does then Tidy is the culprit, not
your HTML.

--
Randy
Chance Favors The Prepared Mind
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html
Javascript Best Practices - http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com/bestpractices/

[Ian Collins]

Andrew Poulos wrote:

marss wrote:

>Andrew Poulos wrote:

>>>I get 3 specific errors:
- Warning: discarding unexpected </textarea>
- Warning: <url:attribute "http://www.foo.com" lacks value
- Error: <url:is not recognized!

I guess you use XHTML validation. So validator does not like the
unknown unclosed tag <url:with incorrect attribute. You can avoid it
if you change "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >" to
plain text. Replace < with &lt; and replace with &gt;.

>>>frm.value = "This is the link to use <url: http://www.foo.com >";

frm is textarea, yes?
Try this.
frm.innerHTML = "This is the link to use &lt;url: http://www.foo.com
&gt;";

Actually, in my initial tests I use the TIDY add-on for FF 2.

So the page is being validated after the script has run?

Use the W3C validator.

--
Ian Collins.

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <L8********************@telcove.net>,
Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:48:13, Randy Webb <Hi************@aol.composted:

>
What does the W3C Validator say about the same code? If the W3C
Validator doesn't complain but Tidy does then Tidy is the culprit, not
your HTML.

That may be so for Genuine Errors.

But :

(1) Tidy gives by default warnings which are not by default given by
<http://validator.w3.org/>.

(2) <http://validator.w3.org/gives up on at least one page - an ISP's
Home Page, forsooth - for which TIDY will happily report usefully on a
local copy. W3 hates characters not in the character set.

IMHO, it's worth using both. I have a batch file which runs TIDY and
various other tests (including checking for 8061) on any HTML page here
that's changed since the last time, stopping on error but otherwise
running to completion.

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