XTHML 1.0 Transitional

June 17th, 2006 · Comments · PeopleArray, PlatinumGrade, Web Development, Website

Just fair warning, I’m ranting about geeky stuff regarding web design/development…

I read a chapter in a book on HTML and CSS design about how to make your website(s) “standards compliant”. I said what the hell, let’s do it. So I started with the contact list page of PeopleArray. I ran the validator from the website of the group that defines what makes up the web standards (World Wide Web Consortium or W3C). I went to the contact list, let it load, viewed the source and copied it, pasted it into the validator and let it rip. The first few passes produced a ton of errors. Some of the errors included no alt’s on my image tags, I had a closing div but it wasn’t ever actually opened and then some id’s of some elements were duplicated (I made those classes and updated the CSS accordingly). Now I have one error…and I have no clue how to get around it AND I can’t believe that this isn’t allowed in the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE. You ready for this? the onClick property isn’t allowed for anchor tags! WTF?!

So I looked it up and found this page. This page shows all of the allowed properties for different tags under this DocType. The only on* properties allowed for an anchor tag are onBlur and onFocus! No onClick. So now I’m trying to figure out how to get around this. onBlur doesn’t work, maybe onFocus?

EDIT: onFocus isn’t the answer. I guess this part of the website won’t adhere to the XHTML 1.0 Transitional (of Strict) standards.