16796 2012-04-19 04:36:00 +0000 Less-than signs (<) within <script> tags are incorrectly required to be expressed as < 2012-04-19 19:26:28 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator Parser HEAD PC Windows XP RESOLVED INVALID P2 normal --- 1 tomcdonnell dave.null www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 66837 0 tomcdonnell 2012-04-19 04:36:00 +0000 When the valid HTML below is submitted to the inline validator at http://validator.w3.org/check, the following errors are reported. When the '<' character is replaced by '<', no errors are reported. Line 9, Column 22: character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but Error Line 9, Column 22: StartTag: invalid element name <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' lang='en' xml:lang='en'> <head> <title>Bug</title> <meta http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html;charset=UTF-8'/> </head> <body> <script type='text/javascript'> for (var i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {} </script> </body> </html> 66864 1 ville.skytta 2012-04-19 19:26:28 +0000 (In reply to comment #0) > When the '<' character is replaced by '<', no errors are reported. Yes, that's what needs to be done, there's no validator bug here.