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Boolean attributes in XHTML/HTML5 I always thought that in XHTML we must use e.g. disabled="disabled". In HTML the name part of the attribute is enough. But I discovered recently, http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#boolean-attributes, that in HTML5 disabled="" also works, and it is my guess that it's also ok in good old XHTML and in XHTML5 (HTML5 parsed with XML parser) for that matter. In my opinion disabled="" is extremely confusing and should never be used. It is my feeling that disabled="disabled" contributed to a bad name of XHTML. The repetition was too silly. I'm wondering why disabled="yes" or disabled="true", a little bit more sensible, was not chosen for XML parsing? Is there an explanation why we ended up with the awkward disabled="disabled"? Cheers Jesper Tverskov http://www.xmlplease.com
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