When I check the javascript code below on W3 I get this error and I need the < in my code. Any suggestions?
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Line 48, Column 18: StartTag: invalid element name for (var i =0; i < document.forms[0].tasks.length; ++i) {
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Line 52, Column 18: StartTag: invalid element name for (var j =0; j < document.forms[0].tasks.length; ++j) {
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux (vers 6 November 2007), see www.w3.org" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><!-- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> -->
<title>To Do List</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
/* <![CDATA[ */
/* ]]> */
function addTask() {
if (document.forms[0].newtask.value == "")
window.alert("You must enter a value
in the New Task fi eld.");
else {
if (document.forms[0].tasks
.options[0].value == "tasks")
document.forms[0].tasks.options[0]
= null;
var newTask = new Option();
newTask.value = document.forms[0]
.newtask.value;
newTask.text = document.forms[0]
.newtask.value;
var numTasks = document.forms[0].tasks
.options.length;
document.forms[0].tasks.options[numTasks]
= newTask;
document.forms[0].newtask.value = "";
}
function deleteTask() {
var selectedTask = 0;
var taskSelected = false;
while (selectedTask < document.forms[0].tasks.length) {
if (document.forms[0].tasks.options[selectedTask].selected== true) {
taskSelected = true;
break;
}
++selectedTask;
}
if (taskSelected == true)
document.forms[0].tasks
.options[selectedTask] = null;
else
window.alert("You must select a task in
the list.");
function ascendingSort() {
var newTasks = new Array();
for (var i =0; i < document.forms[0].tasks.length; ++i) {
newTasks[i] = document.forms[0].tasks.options[i].value;
}
newTasks.sort();
for (var j =0; j < document.forms[0].tasks.length; ++j) {
document.forms[0].tasks.options[j].value = newTasks[j];
document.forms[0].tasks.options[j].text= newTasks[j];
}
Ok, I can fix those items, so does that have a bearing on the fact that the validator is stating that the < is wrong? Thank you for your response that was very helpful.
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