Rails and HTML 4.01 (not XHTML)

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Hi,

I've tried to change my layouts to HTML 4.01 DOCTYPE, but then the page didn't pass w3 validation. Validation fails in the line that corresponds to the following:

   <%= stylesheet_link_tag "depot", :media => "all" %>

This is rendered as

   <link href="/stylesheets/depot.css?1181336605" media="all" rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Change the final "/>" to ">" and the page is validated.

Are you sure HTML 4.01 is allowed ? How can I make stylesheet_link_tag and other constructs to correctly produce HTML 4.01 output ? It would be really nice if I fully converted my pages to HTML 4.01.

Any help ? Thanks,

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calling back an old one - perhaps better than starting a new thread for an unfinished topic though.

so how does one successfully use a HTML 4.01 strict DOCTYPE with rails helpers and hope to validate? i added the following to my application_helper file which seems to do the trick for stylesheets but this is trying a symptom

def other_stylesheet_link_tag(*sources)

out = stylesheet_link_tag sources

out.sub(/\ />$/, ‘>’)

end

stylesheet_link_tag calls stylesheet_tag which calls tag

tag has an open argument to leave tags open, but unfortunately there isn’t any way to access it from stylesheet_link_tag. any other suggestions?

<http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TagHelper.html#M001032>

cheers,

jean-pierre