Bad HTML

[Maljonic]

Would you say the following is incorrect HTML :

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.blbla.com/" title="whatever">

or do you think it doesn't matter which way around you put things?

Obviously it's not the standard way to write it and I wouldn't write it that way around, but does it matter?

 

[JingleBells]

It doesn't matter, see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/sgmltut.html#attributes (HTML)
and http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#sec-starttags (XML)

 

[Maljonic]

I didn't think it did matter, just someone who wrote me an email reckoned it was incorrect HTML.

 

[Shovel]

JingleBells is correct that you can put attributes in any order you like.

The reason they might have acused you of ‘bad HTML’ is your use of ‘target="_blank"’. Basically, opening new windows outside of the user's control is a bit antisocial, breaks the ‘back’ button and can be confusing. If that is their complaint though, they should probably have been more specific than just saying ‘bad HTML’

 

[Maljonic]

Well I'm removing all target="blank"s from Maljonic's Dreams, but it wasn't that site they were talking about anyway, and it wasn't because of that. They've just made this kacky link script that balks if it gets an anchor tag without the href right after it and they recon it's made that way so it doesn't accept 'bad' HTML.

 

[Shovel]

They've just made this kacky link script that balks if it gets an anchor tag without the href right after it

Fuck.

(They may need help from DOM Scripting).