HTML Closing Tag

[don Carlos]

I am writing a php application (not important). I use a php script to query
the database and then populate a selection list . The script does not provide
a closing tag. It results in:

<td><select name=typeid>
<option value="1">Architect
<option value="5">Block and Masonry
<option value="9">Building Matl
etc.

Should I not end each of these with a closing </option>? When I mock it up in
DW2.004, the closing tag is added.

[Murray *ACE*]

The closing tag is optional in HTML4.01. It is not in XHTML1x.

Best practices would require that you close them, though.

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"don Carlos" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I am writing a php application (not important). I use a php script to
>query
> the database and then populate a selection list . The script does not
> provide
> a closing tag. It results in:
>
> <td><select name=typeid>
> <option value="1">Architect
> <option value="5">Block and Masonry
> <option value="9">Building Matl
> etc.
>
> Should I not end each of these with a closing </option>? When I mock it
> up in
> DW2.004, the closing tag is added.
>

[don Carlos]

:D Thanks, Murray. That's the same answer I got from the php-guru to whom I
shoot php questions. I've modified the Selects that came immediately to mind
and will catch the remainder as I do my final code walk-thru. I'm trying to
make it XHTML compliant just because. This app has no reason to use XML, at
least not in its current configuration, but practise makes near-perfect.
Karl

[Murray *ACE*]

Yes - or so the best-practice logic goes....

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"don Carlos" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> :D Thanks, Murray. That's the same answer I got from the php-guru to whom
> I
> shoot php questions. I've modified the Selects that came immediately to
> mind
> and will catch the remainder as I do my final code walk-thru. I'm trying
> to
> make it XHTML compliant just because. This app has no reason to use XML,
> at
> least not in its current configuration, but practise makes near-perfect.
> Karl
>