- From: Arnoud <galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 19:59:09 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
In article <199607171408.QAA05875@www4.inria.fr>, Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org> wrote: > Arnoud Engelfriet writes: > > > The "display: inline" part in the above examples is there because BR > > > is normally a block-level element. One can avoid this annoyance by > > > using an inline element, but then an end tag is required: > > > > Is it? Then why is it listed in the Wilbur DTD in the "special" group > > of character-level elements, together with FONT, A, APPLET and IMG? > > Whether an element is formatted as block or inline is up to the style > sheet. Only for style-sheet supporting browsers. Most current browsers, as well as HTML 2 and Wilbur list BR as a character-level element, which needs to be inside P or similar to be valid. I don't see a need to change this to block-level. Why break all the older browsers? Galactus -- To find out more about PGP, send mail with HELP PGP in the SUBJECT line to me. E-mail: galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl - Please PGP encrypt your mail if you can. Finger galactus@turtle.stack.urc.tue.nl for public key (key ID 0x416A1A35). Anonymity and privacy site: <http://www.stack.urc.tue.nl/~galactus/remailers/>
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