According to web standards you aren’t allowed to put block elements into inline elements. As h1 is a block element and a is an inline element the correct way is: <h1><a href=”#”>This is a title</a></h1> Here is a link so you can learn more: w3 Visual formatting model However, there is an exception that in … Read more
The HTTP and MIME specs specify that header lines must end with \r\n, but they aren’t clear (some would argue that it isn’t clear if they are clear) about what to do with the contents of a TEXTAREA. (See, for instance, this thread from an HTML working group about the issue.) Here’s a quote from … Read more
Remember, the tags are meant to be semantic, not presentational. There is such a thing in English as “fine print”. This is what the small tag represents. There is no analogous concept of “big print” except for a header, which is already covered by seven other tags.
I would always encode in UTF-8. From the Wikipedia page on percent encoding: The generic URI syntax mandates that new URI schemes that provide for the representation of character data in a URI must, in effect, represent characters from the unreserved set without translation, and should convert all other characters to bytes according to UTF-8, … Read more
What people loosely refer to HTML5 in the context of this discussion is the combination of HTML as a markup language, CSS which specifies how it is rendered, and the javascript code which manipulates the HTML and CSS dynamically. Furthermore, HTML5 not only has the standard text elements, but also <canvas> on which 2d graphics … Read more
Using a div instide a td is not worse than any other way of using tables for layout. (Some people never use tables for layout though, and I happen to be one of them.) If you use a div in a td you will however get in a situation where it might be hard to … Read more
HTML: text/html, full-stop. XHTML: application/xhtml+xml, or only if following HTML compatbility guidelines, text/html. See the W3 Media Types Note. XML: text/xml, application/xml (RFC 2376). There are also many other media types based around XML, for example application/rss+xml or image/svg+xml. It’s a safe bet that any unrecognised but registered ending in +xml is XML-based. See the … Read more
EDIT Sept 2022: JMESPath seems to be the most widely-used, fastest-growing, and best-reviewed of alternatives for this. It has many features, including “where”-style filters. ORIGINAL: Sure, how about: JsonPath. Json Query They all seem to be a bit work in progress, but work to some degree. They are also similar to XPath and XQuery conceptually; … Read more
“CSS class” is a misnomer; class is an attribute (or a property, in terms of scripting) that you assign to HTML elements. In other words, you declare classes in HTML, not CSS, so in your case the “target” class does in fact exist on those specific elements, and your markup is perfectly valid as it … Read more
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.5 Buttons created with the BUTTON element function just like buttons created with the INPUT element, but they offer richer rendering possibilities: the BUTTON element may have content. For example, a BUTTON element that contains an image functions like and may resemble an INPUT element whose type is set to “image”, but the BUTTON element … Read more