I use jqueryvalidation plugin that requires something like: <…minlength=“3” require /> in input types even FF recgnizes these tags without jquery validation plugin. but w3 doesn’t validate my html with these tags. How to fix it? I use:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”
[font=calibri]You can’t.
The validator tells you what is allowed under the (X)HTML specification that you are using. Having validation errors is not the end of the world as long as you know what they are and why they are there. Using jQuery code shouldn’t cause any browsers to break, so having it there isn’t a problem, it just means that it won’t pass the validator test.
Think of it like writing an article and using an old spell-checker, and using the word ‘bestie’ (which apparently was added to the Oxford English Dictionary last month). The spell-checker will tell you that word is wrong, but as long as you know that that’s the word you meant to use, it’s fine.[/font]
require is an HTML5 attribute - not an XHTML1 attribute.
You could switch to using XHTML 5 and then the attribute would be valid provided you code it as required=“required”
Of course XHTML5 doesn’t have a doctype so you’d need to specifically tell the validator that you are using that version. (HTML5 only has a doctype to distinguish between standards and quirks mode in HTML and since XHTML doesn’t have a quirks mode there is no need for the tag at all).