Form options, selected and checked, won't validate as XHTML 1

[dcnguyen]

I'm using "selected" and "CHECKED" to pick the default choices among radio buttons and drop-down select menus. However, they don't appear to validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional:

# Error  Line 131 column 19: "CHECKED" is not a member of a group specified for any attribute.

				<input CHECKED type="radio" name="radiusDist" id="radiusFeet" onclick="conve

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# Error Line 142 column 21: the name and VI delimiter can be omitted from an attribute specification only if SHORTTAG YES is specified.

				<option selected value="1" >Jan.</option><option value="2">Feb.</option><opt

Anyway around this?

 

[Vragabond]

There is. Two things:

1. XHMTL wants every attribute to have a value.
2. XHTML requires all attributes to be lower case.

So:

 <input [b]checked="checked"[/b] type="radio" name="radiusDist" id="radiusFeet" ... />

<option [b]selected="selected"[/b] value="1" >Jan.</option>

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