Re: Tidy suppressed my html, head and body tags

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, DINH Frederic wrote:

> 
> Bonjour everyone,
> 
> I know we have badly (horribly) written files on our website
> http://www.ffv.fr/
> 
> Occasionnaly, I tidy up some of them. But on the last one, Tidy
> (included in HTML Kit build 288) stripped the HTML, HEAD and BODY
> tags. Wow. I know the body tag has a bad link attribute, but is it
> normal that Tidy suppressed the whole tag?
> 
> The file can be found at : 
>     http://asso.ffv.fr/apprendre/app_form_new.html

The file has a mangled body start tag which ends as:

    linkfc2">

rather than something like:

    link="#273FC2">

This means that Tidy gets confused. It recovered fine on my
development version.

Regards,

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