W3C validator and scripts inside body

Question

Hi all
I'm just wondering if placing <script ...
></script>
inside the body tag is considered invalid html (transitional
4.01) ?
I tried to validate a page and got dozens of errors that all
point to things like:
Line 37, Column 83: end tag for element "I" which is not
open:
... your extension is</i> '+ext+'</p>';
the html supposedly invalid is actually part of a javascript
string in a js function. I don't
understand how the validator thinks I am closing tags that I
did not open. It's open somwehere else
in the javascript function... And why does the validator try
to validate html that's inside
javascript functions?
The validator however does NOT mention anything about the
javascript being inside the body tag and
not in the head.
So I'm wondering what is going on.
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Answer 1

Change this -
var newHtml = '<p style="color:red"><i>Sorry,
this file type is not
supported:</i> '+ext+'</p>';
to this -
var newHtml = '<p style="color:red"><i>Sorry,
this file type is not
supported:<' + '/i> '+ext+'<' + '/p>';
so that the closing tags are broken apart.
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"(_seb_)" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Murray *ACE* wrote:
>>> I'm just wondering if placing <script ...
></script>
>>> inside the body tag is considered invalid html
(transitional 4.01) ?
>>
>> It's not.
>>
>>> Line 37, Column 83: end tag for element "I"
which is not open:
>>> ... your extension is</i>
'+ext+'</p>';
>>
>> You have to be devious. Can you show us the whole
function?
>>
>
> here's the whole function -but I don't see how html
inside javascript can
> be relevant to the validator!
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> function updateGall(){// UPDATE IMAGE, CAPTION, AND
NAVIGATION, DEPENDING
> ON filenum
> var extar=files[filenum].split(".");
> var ext=extar[extar.length-1];
> if(/^(jpe?g|gif|png)$/i.test(ext)){
> var newHtml = '<img src="'+files[filenum]+'" alt=""
id="mainImg">';
> }else if(/^(mov|mpe?g|avi)$/i.test(ext)){
> var newHtml = '<OBJECT
> CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
WIDTH="320"
> HEIGHT="256" CODEBASE="
http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"><PARAM
> name="SRC" VALUE="'+files[filenum]+'"><PARAM
name="SCALE"
> VALUE="aspect"><embed src="'+files[filenum]+'"
width="320" height="256"
> scale="aspect"></embed></OBJECT>';
> }else{
> var newHtml = '<p
style="color:red"><i>Sorry, this file type is not
> supported:</i> '+ext+'</p>';
> }
> getId("fileDisplay").innerHTML=newHtml;
> var o=getId("gallNav").getElementsByTagName("a");
> for(var
> i=0;i<o.length;i++){if(i==filenum){o
.className="selected";}else{o.className="bla";}}
> // image file without extension:
> getId("caption").innerHTML=captions[filenum];
> }
> </script>
>
> The validator chokes on all the closing html tags
> (</object>,</embed>,</p>,</i>)
in this function, because these tags were
> supposeldy never opened.
>
> ?...
>
> the actual page is here:
>
http://www.webtrans1.com/downloads/demos/image_gallery.php
>
> --
> seb (@webtrans1.com)
>
> high-end web design:
http://webtrans1.com
>
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>
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>
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