Re: [Lynx-dev] lss and anchor elements

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Ed Hurst wrote:

> Using Lynx 2.8.7 compiled on CentOS 5.4 using SRPM from the latest Fedora 
> release: Having made some adjustments to the default lynx.lss, I find in 
> documents which use self-closing anchors, lynx does not turn off the 'a:' 
> attribute color.
>
> To wit: <a id="Name" name="Name" />
>
> The color specified in the lss continues for all characters following this 
> anchor within a longer document. The only way I can get Lynx to turn it off 
> is with a specific closing:
>
> <a id="Name" name="Name"></a>
>
> However, I don't control most documents on the web, and I run into this too 
> often to ignore it. Is there a way to convince Lynx to not apply coloring 
> after such anchors? I've browsed the code but I'm not a coder, so I really 
> didn't know what to look for.
>
> Apologies if this has already been addressed, as I've not seen it covered 
> elsewhere.

This might help (in lynx.cfg):

.h2 XHTML_PARSING 
#
# XHTML_PARSING - HTML parsing 
# When true, tells lynx that it can ignore certain tags which have no content
# in an XHTML 1.0 document.  For example 
#       <p /> 
#       <a /> 
# When the option is false, lynx will not treat the tag as an ending. 
#XHTML_PARSING:FALSE

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