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Bug 3298 - Validator incorrectly interprets HTML fragments in a JavaScript string as misplaced elements
Summary: Validator incorrectly interprets HTML fragments in a JavaScript string as mis...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: check (show other bugs)
Version: HEAD
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Terje Bless
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2006-05-19 15:41 UTC by Artie
Modified: 2006-05-19 15:45 UTC (History)
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Description Artie 2006-05-19 15:41:39 UTC 
One of our web applications uses an array of strings containing anchor tags for dynamically building out a menu system, like this:

menu1[0] = '<a href="http://someurl.com/there">Some URL</a>';

This is inside a valid <script type="text/javascript"> tag, but the validator complains with the following:

document type does not allow element "a" here.

The DOCTYPE is XHTML 1.0 Transitional:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

The rest of the page validates just fine.
Comment 1 Bj 2006-05-19 15:45:26 UTC 
See http://esw.w3.org/topic/ValidationProblems