- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:20:52 +0100
- To: "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 00:25 20/02/2009, Cynthia Shelly wrote: >I couldn't find a definitive answer to this question by looking at >the 4.1.1 text or failures. > >If a page has a doctype of XHMTL 1.0 and includes an IMG or INPUT >tag that isn't self-closing, does it pass 4.1.1? > ><input type="text"> is allowed in HTML ><input type="text" /> would be expected in XHTML > >BUT, it's not entirely clear whether ><input type="text"> in XHTML passes. I don't believe it causes any >problems, it's still parseable by user agents, but I'm not sure if it violates >"elements have complete start and end tags, elements are nested >according to their specifications," The input element is an empty element type. The only way it can have complete start and end tags, in my opinion, is by having both a start and an end tag, so <input type="text"></input> or <input type="text" />. (The latter is recommended by XHTML 1.0's HTML compatibility guidelines: <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_2>. Best regards, Christophe >Can we clarify this in a technique or failure? -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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