| Re: populate pulldownbox from query [message #174065 is a reply to message #174061] |
Fri, 20 May 2011 22:29   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 5/20/2011 6:16 PM, Jeff North wrote:
> On 20 May 2011 20:06:38 GMT, in comp.lang.php Denis McMahon
> <denis(dot)m(dot)f(dot)mcmahon(at)gmail(dot)com>
> <4dd6c9cd$0$30688$bed64819(at)gradwell(dot)net> wrote:
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>> | On Fri, 20 May 2011 11:30:02 -0700, Co wrote:
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>> |> Can anyone help me here?
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>> | General observation, html attributes, such as the select name, option
>> | values etc should be enclosed in quotes at the html level, such as one of
>> | the following:
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>> | echo "<option value='$some_var_name'>some text</value>";
>> | echo "<option value=\"$some_var_name\">some text</value>";
>> | echo '<option value="$some_var_name">some text</value>';
>> |
>> | Rgds
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>> | Denis McMahon
> Not to quibble about such a matter but you don't necessarily need
> quotes around attributes (I prefer quotes as any syntax highlighting
> editor will show the values up).
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> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2
> In certain cases, authors may specify the value of an attribute
> without any quotation marks. The attribute value may only contain
> letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9), hyphens (ASCII decimal 45),
> periods (ASCII decimal 46), underscores (ASCII decimal 95), and colons
> (ASCII decimal 58). We recommend using quotation marks even when it is
> possible to eliminate them.
I believe that's why he said SHOULD, and not MUST.
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