Some event attributes no longer valid in XHTML

RoseDa · Oct 2, 2004

I am converting some of my HTML 4 webpages to XHTML.
For some reason XHTML does not allow the body tag to have the OnLoad attribute.

Code:

<body OnLoad="function()">

Also the onclick attribute is not valid for the submit button.

Code:

<input type="submit" name="submitbutton" onclick="validate();return returnVal;" value="Submit" />

Any ideas on valid ways of converting HTML 4 to XHTML?

It still works, but the page will not validate.

Yours,
Dale Rose

jemminger · Oct 2, 2004

nonsense.

re: OnLoad,
xhtml is case sensitive; all element attributes must be lower-case.

re: onload and onclick, both are valid event handler attributes per the xhtml reference:

http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_reference.asp

this is perfectly valid xhtml:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
    "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html
  xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL]
  xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>test</title>
    <meta
      http-equiv="Content-Type"
      content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  </head>

  <body onload="void(0);">
    <div>
      <form action="#" method="post">
        <div><input
          type="submit"
          onclick="alert('click');" /></div>
      </form>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

save it locally and run it through the w3c validator:

http://validator.w3.org/

=========================================================
-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

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Some event attributes no longer valid in XHTML

RoseDa

MIS

jemminger

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