- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:46:52 +0100
- To: public-html-xml@w3.org, "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:01:01 +0100, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > These are (some of) my beliefs about HTML void elements. Can someone > indicate whether any of them are false? This is quite easy to verify in the specification. Does something need to be simplified there? What is stopping you checking it there? > 1) There are 14 void elements, namely area, base, br, col, command, > embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, and source. There's also track and wbr. <image> becomes <img> and <isindex> is a special macro. > 4) The form "<br/>" is *invalid* HTML. It is valid. > 6) The form "<hr/>" is *invalid* HTML. It is valid. > 12) All other void elements behave like hr. No, only <hr> implies a </p> tag when there is a p element in scope. > 13) The list of void elements will never grow. We might add elements in the future. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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