spaces in image names
 

I have some html that looks like this:

<img src="some_image
..jpg" alt="">

with a line feed in the image path.

IE6 and Opera7 both render the image. That surprises me as I expected a
broken image.

Is html supposed to ignore the white space in the path?

I'm trying to decide whether to reload the data and fix that...

Jeff

Re: spaces in image names
 

In alt.html Jeff Thies said:

> I have some html that looks like this:
>
> <img src="some_image
> .jpg" alt="">
>
> with a line feed in the image path.
>
> IE6 and Opera7 both render the image. That surprises me as I expected a
> broken image.

RFC2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax

<quote>
E. Recommendations for Delimiting URI in Context
[...]
In some cases, extra whitespace (spaces, linebreaks, tabs, etc.) may
need to be added to break long URI across lines. The whitespace should
be ignored when extracting the URI.
</quote> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

> I'm trying to decide whether to reload the data and fix that...

fix it. break it somewhere else. e.g:

<img src="some_image.jpg"
alt="">


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Re: spaces in image names
 

Jeff Thies wrote:

> I have some html that looks like this:
>
> <img src="some_image
> .jpg" alt="">
>
> with a line feed in the image path.
>
> IE6 and Opera7 both render the image. That surprises me as I expected a
> broken image.
>
> Is html supposed to ignore the white space in the path?

Browser error correction. You have been lucky.

> I'm trying to decide whether to reload the data and fix that...

I would think so. What does the validator say?

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Re: spaces in image names
 

Without quill or qualm, Jeff Thies quothed:

> I have some html that looks like this:
>
> <img src="some_image
> .jpg" alt="">
>
> with a line feed in the image path.
>
> IE6 and Opera7 both render the image. That surprises me as I expected a
> broken image.
>
> Is html supposed to ignore the white space in the path?
>
> I'm trying to decide whether to reload the data and fix that...

style the whitespace "color:#000000;" and maybe it'll cancel it out.

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