Rails and HTML 4.01 (not XHTML)

Rails
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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

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,

2

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?
<

cheers,
jean-pierre

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Too funny that I just figured out the same thing. Why is Rails
generating this additional character?