Re: document.write and validation

by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>

Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:47:26 -0500
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Cc:	"tim booker" <timbooker(at)btinternet.com>
In-Reply-To:	tim
	todo: View Thread, Original

Put a backslash in front of the /a

Thus, document.write('<a href="'index.html">click here<\/a>');

At 06:49 AM 03/12/01, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>When I try to validate a page that uses document.write to insert HTML, the
>W3C validator gives me an error.
>
>For example, if I had:
>
>document.write('<a href="'index.html">click here</a>');
>
>The validator doesn't seem to see the opening tag, and so reports an error
>when it sees the closing.
>
>Is that section of JavaScript invalid?  Or, is it a problem with the
>validator that causes it not to see the opening tag?
>
>How can I get around this validation problem?
>
>Tim
>
>
>www.timbooker.com

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Chuck Upsdell
Email:     cupsdell(at)istar.ca or cupsdell(at)torfree.net
Website:   http://home.istar.ca/~cupsdell/

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