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I noticed that some elements have attributes which are boolean. I wonder why the values are not true or false? or 1 and 0? Are there any reason behind why they are like this?
<option selected="selected">Ham Burger</option>
or
<input type="button" disabled="disabled" />
Thanks in advance!
In SGML, an attribute may be minimized so that its value alone is short for both the name and the value, with the only possible value for the attribute in this case obviously being the attribute’s own name. HTML uses this for boolean attributes, where the presence or absence of the attribute is what’s meaningful, and its value is irrelevant. But in XML, minimized attributes were disallowed, so we wound up with the awkwardness that is
selected="selected"when XHTML came into vogue. If you’re writing HTML rather than XHTML, you can just writeselected.