xhtml compliant search bar?

Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 5283 Location: Hollywood, CA

I try and keep my pages validating xhtml strict 1.1, and I was wondering if there is an easy way to make the search bar xhtml-kosher.

I could look into it myself, but it would require some book learning on how all that raz mataz works in xhtml.

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 7:25 am

There's probably just a few things that you'd need to change. It's basically just a form with a bit of formatting (that I obviously didn't make THAT compliant) but if you made a new form that submitted to the search page, it should work.

Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 2:48 pm

The search form on my site looks like this except the boards are doing weird things with it so I changed the >'s and <'s to ]'s and ['s:

[form action="http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl"]
[input type="hidden" name="comic" value="52" /]
[input type="text" name="s" value="" class="text-input" /] [input type="image" src="img/go-btn.gif" name="search" value="search" /]
[/form]

I believe that validates as transitional, and probably as strict too, unless the "name" attributes aren't allowed in strict (can't remember, but I think they're deprecated?). You ought to be able to just change them to IDs though.