RE: Question about SELECT and HTML validation

by Kukla Fran and Ollie <weblists2001(at)yahoo.com>

Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2001 14:03:31 -0700
To:	"HWG Basics List" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Cc:	"Tom Rumley" <redo4you(at)yahoo.com>, "Robert Gregg" <rgregg(at)HiWAAY.net>
References:	HiWAAY
	todo: View Thread, Original

I suggest you check out the standards.

The <./option> tag is optional.  It is valid.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-OPTION

You may wish to remember http://www.w3.org/ so you can check your beliefs 
against the reality.  :)

t 16:33 2001-10-09 -0700, Tom Rumley wrote:
>Hey Bob,
>
>While I've seen other people do this I don't believe that it is valid html
>to have a closing </option> tag for each of the option tags in a select
>element. I'd suggest you try validating with the closing option removed and
>see if it works!
>
>Good Luck
>
>Tom Rumley
>   mailto: redo4you(at)yahoo.com

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