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Adam

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Feb 4, 2002, 5:59:34 PM2/4/02
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I have this bit of javascript on my page at
http://www.centennialmedia.com/tutorials/images.html

document.form1.html_code.value="<html>\n\n<head>\n <title>My Home
Page</title>\n</head>\n\n<body>\n<p><img src=\"newspaper.gif\" width=\"44\"
height=\"36\" alt=\"A Newspaper\">\nSee the image to the left of this
sentence?</p>\n</body>\n\n</html>";

It's perfectly legall javascript and I use it to fill the value of a text
area. However I get all kinds of errors when I try to validate the page at
w3c casue it thinks that stuff is html code which it looks like ti but it is
actually contained in a javascript string. Should I just ignore this and
consider my page validated?
Thanks
Adam

mbS

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Feb 4, 2002, 6:52:08 PM2/4/02
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Adam wrote:

Try moving the JS functions into a separate
".js" file. Also try moving the long strings into variables
and set the document.formX.html_code.values to those variables.


mbS
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Nick Kew

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Feb 4, 2002, 6:55:18 PM2/4/02
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In article <qnE78.10932$Kx3.4...@typhoon.jacksonville.mediaone.net>, one of infinite monkeys

at the keyboard of "Adam" <adamb...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> actually contained in a javascript string. Should I just ignore this and
> consider my page validated?

No. You should read the FAQ, and fix the error.

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Adam

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Feb 4, 2002, 7:34:12 PM2/4/02
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> casue it thinks that stuff is html code

No it correctly detects that the script element is closed;
you need to escape all slashes of closing tags within the string with
backslashes, like <\/title>

Eric B. Bednarz from alt.html found out what is was. I needed to escape my
forward slahes in the string. Validates fine now thanks.

Sam Hughes

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May 25, 2002, 6:11:58 PM5/25/02
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"Adam" <adamb...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:qnE78.10932$Kx3.4...@typhoon.jacksonville.mediaone.net:

When you start and end your script...

Replace:
<script type="text/javascript">
...
</script>

with:
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
...
// -->
</script>


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