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Discussion on: Are you 'using' "useless" "\"QUOTES\""?

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Replies for: I've been in web dev for a long time and I've never heard of quotes being invalid markup. Can you post exactly where it says this in the spec?

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James Thomson •

I did find this in the validator.w3.org error docs... the same validator you use.

In fact, unless you have extreme file size requirements it is a very very good idea to always put quote marks around your attribute values. It is never wrong to do so, and very often it is absolutely necessary.

validator.w3.org/docs/errors.html#...