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14 changes: 13 additions & 1 deletion Doc/library/html.parser.rst
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Expand Up @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ implementations do nothing (except for :meth:`~HTMLParser.handle_startendtag`):
argument is a list of ``(name, value)`` pairs containing the attributes found
inside the tag's ``<>`` brackets. The *name* will be translated to lower case,
and quotes in the *value* have been removed, and character and entity references
have been replaced.
have been replaced. For empty attributes, *value* is ``None``.

For instance, for the tag ``<A HREF="https://www.cwi.nl/">``, this method
would be called as ``handle_starttag('a', [('href', 'https://www.cwi.nl/')])``.
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Data : alert("<strong>hello! &#9786;</strong>");
End tag : script

Attribute names are converted to lowercase, quotes from attribute values removed,
and ``None`` is returned as *value* for empty attributes (such as ``checked``):

.. doctest::

>>> parser.feed("<input TYPE='checkbox' checked required='' disabled=disabled>")
Start tag: input
attr: ('type', 'checkbox')
attr: ('checked', None)
attr: ('required', '')
attr: ('disabled', 'disabled')

Parsing comments:

.. doctest::
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