[MarkLogic Dev General] textarea closing missing

Michael Blakeley michael.blakeley at marklogic.com
Fri Jul 13 15:50:03 PDT 2007


Paul,

Both forms work for me, using IE 6.0.2800.1106. That is, I see an empty 
textarea on the resulting page.

-- Mike

Williams, Paul wrote:
>> For example, this seems to work for me, in IE6:
>>
>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>> <body>
>> <textarea></textarea>
>> </body>
>> </html>
> 
> That's because that is valid HTML.  It should work even without the
> XHTML namespace declaration.  You have the end tag in there instead of
> the shorthand "<textarea/>" which is not valid HTML.  Try this...
> 
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <body><textarea/></body>
> </html>
> 
> You'll see that since the textarea is never legally closed, the rest of
> the page shows up as contents of the text box when rendered in IE6
> regardless of the XHTML namespace.
> 
> -- Paul
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