May a Tag have Two Classes?

"Wayfarer" <wfping2004-x (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

I recently got a warning from the WDG HTML Validator at
http://www.htmlhelp.com/ for assigning two classes as shown for
http://www.journeys.ws/books.asp :

Line 71, character 23:

p class="menu" class="nw"

Error: duplicate specification of attribute CLASS

I Googled but can't find anything on it. Is there a way to assign two
classes so the page will validate (yes, I know there are other errors and
I'm working on them)?

Yes. Multiple classes are space separated e.g. <p class="menu nw">

Neither class will be applied by Netscape 4, but both will be applied
by IE5 (maybe IE4) and more modern browsers.

Steve

I recently got a warning from the WDG HTML Validator at
http://www.htmlhelp.com/ for assigning two classes as shown for
http://www.journeys.ws/books.asp :

Line 71, character 23:

<p class="menu" class="nw">

Error: duplicate specification of attribute CLASS

I Googled but can't find anything on it. Is there a way to assign two
classes so the page will validate (yes, I know there are other errors and
I'm working on them)?

TIA

Neill

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:23:21 +0000, Steve Pugh <steve (AT) pugh (DOT) net> wrote:

[...] both [classes] will be applied by IE5 (maybe IE4) [...]

IE4 doesn't support multiple classes.

Mike

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"Michael Winter" <M.Winter (AT) blueyonder (DOT) co.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:23:21 +0000, Steve Pugh <steve (AT) pugh (DOT) net> wrote:

[...] both [classes] will be applied by IE5 (maybe IE4) [...]

IE4 doesn't support multiple classes.

There we are then. Another benefit to using multiple classes - it
hides our CSS from IE4 as well as from NN4. Good stuff.

Steve

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Steve Pugh wrote:

IE4 doesn't support multiple classes.

There we are then. Another benefit to using multiple classes - it
hides our CSS from IE4 as well as from NN4. Good stuff.

You don't even need multiple classes: just write
<p class="mystyle mystyle">

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