On Jul 9, 4:30 am, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:23:20 +0200, Jan Danielsson wrote: > > > Firefox is very unhappy about the textarea not having separate > > > opening and a closing tags. i.e. I need this: > > > > Then either Firefox is broken or you don't declare your XHTML properly and > > Firefox thinks it's HTML. > > I suspect the former - we noticed exactly the same thing (can't > remember which tags we were having problems with), using the > declaration :- > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > > I haven't tested this again recently though.
Firefox is not broken. The XML prolog and DOCTYPE do not affect HTML vs. XHTML interpretation--only the Content-Type does. If you are serving a page as "text/html", which you almost certainly are, then all browsers will parse it as HTML, regardless of prolog and doctype, and HTML does not support self-closing tags. You need to serve the page as "application/xhtml+xml", or avoid self-closing tags on elements other than <img>, <br>, <link>, etc. http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
