UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Extra attributes in FONT tag

Is the following considered to be valid HTML?


I know that there's no reason to intentionally have more than one instance of an attribute, I'm just trying to find out whether or not it would cause problems with any browsers.

I don't believe that it will cause any problems because, by default, only the first occurance of any attribute within an html tag will be recognized. However, just because this "works" doesn't make it valid.

- DB

sorry, but that code would be invalid under HTML 4.01.

invalid under HTML 4.01

Does the 4.01 specification state exactly how a browser shall interpret the above tag? I looked around at www.w3.org, but couldn't find that info.

I don't care if the browser just ignores the tag, but I don't want to use the tag if it's going to result in erratic behavior.

i'm not exactly sure how it would get rendered, but different browsers will treat it differently. i can tell you that the page that you're trying to use that on wouldn't pass for validation. like DB said, most browsers will probably only look at the first instance of it.

just don't hold me to that.

Thanks.

What I'm doing is implementing a UBB code extension to emulate the HTML font tag. I'd prefer not to bother checking for duplicated attributes. I suppose it's no worse than if HTML is enabled, and someone uses invalid HTML.

oh, really? sounds like something cool. the only advice that i can offer you is that the code is only as good as the coder...

I've posted the hack in the Perl forum:
https://www.ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=14&t=000414