HTML Validation fails when using standard Java Scripts

Poster: CTT
Dated: Monday January 31 2005 - 8:17:15 GMT

When I try to validate the HTML on my page using the W3C HTML validator at http://validator.w3.org/, I get two failures with the following results:

Failure 1:
Line 19, column 73: delimiter """ invalid: only S separators and TAGC allowed here ...pt language=JavaScript src=mmenuns4.js></scr"+"ipt>");
Failure 2:
Line 19, column 73: end tag for element "SCR" which is not open
...pt language=JavaScript src=mmenuns4.js></scr"+"ipt>");

My code is straight from the download:

[code]<script language=JavaScript type=text/javascript>
if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=mmenuns4.js></scr"+"ipt>");
else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=mmenudom.js></scr"+"ipt>");
</script>[/code]

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Poster: John
Dated: Monday January 31 2005 - 14:08:55 GMT

Exactly what version are you running?

The code included in the latest install.txt looks like this...

I added the type= parameter, but I think you'll find the problem is the missing comment tags.

Poster: CTT
Dated: Tuesday February 1 2005 - 3:20:02 GMT

I was working from a download of 5.691.

I just downloaded the file from the hyperlink named "Horizontal Navigational Menu in .zip format" version of 5.691 again to be sure. Here's what I find in menu.htm:

<script type="text/javascript" src="milonic_src.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");

</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="menu_data.js"></script>

No comment tags that I can see.

However, I've gotten my script to validate now. I was careless with the "" inside the script commands.

I find that the script now validates both with and without the Comment tags:

This validates without the comment tags:

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="milonic_src.js" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
</script>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="http://www.uuss.org/menu_dataintable.js" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>

and the script with the comment tags also validates:

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="milonic_src.js" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
-->
</script>
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="http://www.uuss.org/menu_dataintable.js" type="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>

Thanks for the help.