Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn said:
However, that attribute is, of course, not Valid at all.
Of course, according to
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.4
You're 100% correct. I hereby amend my response to read:
"if you're interested in preserving the newlines and such in the text,
you will want to make sure you're using a textarea."
And if you could sound just a teensy bit more snotty, I'd find the
energy to call you out on it. You're like that teacher that needs his
students to feel like morons so that he can feel good about himself.
Honestly, life is not that bad.
Here's another way to say it, just for the edification of people who do
not want to be, well, ire-inducing:
"Don't use the multiline attribute, as it is not valid markup according to:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.4"
Or another:
"That last comment about multiline is actually invalid markup, check out
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.4"
OR:
"Oops, I wouldn't count on multiline to work, it's not valid markup. The
official specification for the input tag is located at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.4"
And I suppose there are about 32,768 other ways to say it that wouldn't
infer that the person you're correcting should have known better by some
kind of osmosis.
Please do notice as well that rather than just making a flippant
comment, references are fun and very educational.
And blah, who cares? It's usenet, right? We get to be whatever kind of
lofty, crusty old jerks we wanna be, because no one can call us on our
natures. Hell, we're above normal human interaction, we code for a living!
Oh, and thanks for the correction. Much obliged.
~A!
--
anthony at my pet programmer dot com
