[Zope-dev] manage_main <select ... /> don't work with Mozilla

[Matt Hamilton]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Casey Duncan wrote:

> Cyril Elkaim wrote:
> > 
> >        Hi,
> > 
> >        The last builds of Mozilla do not accept anymore this kind of HTML tags:
> > <select .... />
> >        I have discuss with Moz developers and they say it's not in the standard.
> > So now we must use something like <select ...>. All the other tags must follow
> > the same syntax, of course.
> > 
> >     The problem with the management interface of Zope is it uses '/>' in many
> > places. So it's not possible to use Moz for creating new objects for example.
> > 
> >         So should it be possible to do something about it :-)
> > 
> >         Cyril
> > 
> 
> So then Mozilla doesn't support XHTML?? That is where that whole
> trailing slash
> convention is coming from.

<select> should have a corresponding </select> right?  In which case no,
it should not have a trailing slash.  They are only needed for single tags
that have no corresponding close, eg <br /> <hr /> etc.

-Matt

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