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In XHTML 1.0 Strict do attribute values need to be surrounded with quotes?

In XHTML 1.0 Strict do attribute values need to be surrounded with quotes?

Example: 

<input type="text" id="username"/>

And if so according to the standard can single quotes be used and possible mixed with double quotes?

Example:

<input type='text' id="username"/>
Solution

  • From the XHTML 1.0 spec, they must always be quoted.

    All attribute values must be quoted, even those which appear to be numeric.

    From the HTML 4 spec, single quoted attributes are allowed.

    By default, SGML requires that all attribute values be delimited using either double quotation marks (ASCII decimal 34) or single quotation marks (ASCII decimal 39)

    The xhtml spec linked above lists the section as 'Differences from HTML 4', so since single quotes are not specifically disallowed, I think that means single quotes are allowed as well.