JavaScript xhtml validation

[TrolloC]

Hi, i am trying to validate some page with xhtml validator, for the following part i got errors.
Anyone knows what does it want?

<script type="text/javascript">
  document.getElementById('myImage').innerHTML = (document.all ? '' : "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src='image.gif' alt='' />");
</script>

Error: "document type does not allow element "img" here", and it points to the closing part of the mg tag ('>'). now when try to replace < with &lt; and > with &gt; validator is fine with that, but then the browser (firefox) shows the actual text and not the image....

any help plz?

[AdamGundry]

You need to wrap the code in a CDATA section.

Adam

[TrolloC]

tnx, that convinced the validator

should i put some header about xml in the page ?

I am getting syntax error in java script console for the <![CDATA[ .....

[AdamGundry]

Sorry, I should have mentioned that you'll need to comment out the CDATA section as well. Fortunately, the JS comment characters aren't XML special characters, so you can do this:

<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
...
/*]]>*/
</script>

Adam