class=" xxx "

[roedygr]

I discovered "errors" in my markup of the form class=" xxx ". lead/and/or/trailing spaces on class parms.

There were screwing up my global search/replaces.

Are these kosher? HTML Validator does not complain or warn about them.

IIRC I can configure whether I like spaces around the =.

[Albert Wiersch]

Hello Roedy,

Here is more information on the "class" attribute:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/m ... ml#classes

And the parsing information:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/m ... -on-spaces

So it should not be a problem. Preceding and trailing spaces should be kosher.

However, it should be possible to write a small "user function" to generate a message if there are leading or trailing white-space characters. I've done this below.

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function onAttributeID_124() { // "_124" because 124 is the ID of the "class" attribute
 if checkString(3,CurrentAttValue) {
  Message(1,MSG_WARNING,'The value for "'+CurrentAttName+'" has has leading and/or trailing white-space characters.',getAttValueLocation(CurrentAttIndex));
 }
}

Just put all your user functions in a *.cfg text file and specify that filename in the Validator Engine Options, Validator Engine->Config File page. You'll need to reload the configuration for any changes in the file to take effect.