validating lightbox for XHTML 1.1

[Karloff]

hey guys i'm getting a problem validating my site for xhtml 1.1, the only prob is the lightbox that i use.
I'm using a bit of code like this

<a href="images/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]">image #1</a>

and the

[roadtrip]

ain't validating. seems to be the problem is the square brackets.

anyone know a work round for this? do i have to go back to just using a strict doc tyoe?

ps: once i get this fixed i'm entering the site of the month comp

[karinne]

I guess you fixed it? 'Cause it validates

[simpleurl]

Error Line 67 column 59: character "[" is not allowed in the value of attribute "rel". <a href="gallery/images/gallery.jpg" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"> It is possible that you violated the naming convention for this attribute. For example, id and name attributes must begin with a letter, not a digit.

Not sure whether that will validate with the [roadtrip] thing on. I made them valid but I was using XHTML transitional at the time.

[Karloff]

I guess you fixed it? 'Cause it validates

my apologies karinne, i should have said it was on this page. its also on the page about achnaboabne

simple, i did have it a xhtml strict and it validates i was just trying to see how easy it was to validate my site in xhtml 1.1.

i'll keep looking into it.

thanks 4 looking guys

[Shadowfiend]

Isn't there any way you can tell lightbox to accept different values in the rel attribute?

[caterpixel]

I don't think there is, or if there was, I don't know. I used Lightbox for my portfolio and had to switch from XHTML 1.1 to 1.0 Strict.

[Shadowfiend]

Suckage. I would dig through the code and try to figure out how to fix that, but I have no time right now :-/

[Karloff]

cheers guy, did find a sorta solution but doesn't work in IE5 so i think i resort to xhtml strict.

cheers:-)

[Shadowfiend]

Try using [minicode]&amp;#91;[/minicode] and [minicode]&amp;#93;[/minicode] instead (for [ and ], respectively, where &amp; is the & symbol)...

[Karloff]

Try using [minicode]&amp;#91;[/minicode] and [minicode]&amp;#93;[/minicode] instead (for [ and ], respectively, where &amp; is the & symbol)...

thanks for the input. unfortunetly that didn't work so i decided to try what i did already and see the result (well what i thought i had done) and it seems that all that was needed was

<a href="gallery/images/gallery.jpg" rel="lightbox.roadtrip">

a small dot!! so thought i'd done that 1st, but i must have forgot.:ermm:

cheers shadow and co:thumbsup: