Author Topic: quotes are optional again... (Read 138 times)

Jason Knight · « **on:** 17 Jan 2023, 02:59:18 pm »

Yup...

<div id=top>

or

<link rel=stylesheet media=screen href=test.screen.css>

Are valid HTML again. I'm not sure when it happened but... that's the W3C for you. Pointless changes whilst ignoring long-standing problems? Right up their alley.

https://deathshadow.medium.com/html-attribute-value-quotes-are-optional-again-9c619c52e991

coothead · « **Reply #1 on:** 17 Jan 2023, 05:09:48 pm »

Personally, I have to say that I have always liked using double
quotation marks and found them to be aesthetically pleasing.

Luckily for me, as it will not be too long before I shuffle off
this mortal coil, I don't really care one way or the other.

coothead

mtness · « **Reply #2 on:** 18 Jan 2023, 02:15:24 pm »

And not only that -

the w3c validator discourages the use self-closing tags since a while
[ stackoverflow.com/questions/3558119/are-non-void-self-closing-tags-valid-in-html5 ]

Hell, it even allows to ommit closing li's and the like...
I will never get use this and I prefer it my way.

(with self-closing tags and closing tags. and quotes)

Best regards, MT

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