Re: HTML errors

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If you are going to use double quotes escape out.

>> echo "<li><a href='index.php?page=".$category."'>".$replace."</a></li>";


On Jan 12, 2011, at 2:30 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 10:35 PM -0500 1/11/11, David McGlone wrote:
>> Hi Everyone, I'm having a problem validating some links I have in a foreach.
>> Here is my code:
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
>> 
>> my PHP code:
>> $categorys = array('home', 'services', 'gallery', 'about_us', 'contact_us',
>> 'testimonials');
>> foreach($categorys as $category){
>> $replace = str_replace("_", " ", $category);
>> echo "<li><a href='index.php?page=$category'>$replace</a></li>";
>> }
>> 
>> Validator Error:
>> an attribute value must be a literal unless it contains only name characters
>> 
>> Åome>home</a></li><li><a href=index.php?page=services>services</a></li><li><a
>> hÅ
>> 
>> I have tried various combinatons and different doctypes. I'm beginning to
>> wonder if this code is allowed at all.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Blessings
>> David M.
> 
> David:
> 
> First of all, the type (strict or transitional) of DOCTYPE doesn't matter -- it only matters IF you are going to use deprecated HTML elements (transitional) or not (strict).
> 
> Second, your <li> (i.e., list) should start with a "type of list" tag, such <ol> for ordered list -- there are several different types (i.e., ol, ul, dir, menu, dl dt dd).
> 
> Third, you might try this:
> 
> echo("<li><a href=\"index.php?page=$category\">$replace</a></li>");
> 
> The Validator might be objecting to the way you use ' instead of ".
> 
> HTH's
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> tedd
> 
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