No generalized empty element in HTML
Lars Eighner (eighner@crl.com)
Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:52:45 -0500
From: eighner@crl.com (Lars Eighner)
To: www-html@w3.org
Subject: No generalized empty element in HTML
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:52:45 -0500
Message-Id: <99U4zAwZqMyU092yn@crl.com>
HTML 4 contains a generalized block element (<DIV>)
and a generalised inline element (<SPAN>) but seems
to lack a generalized empty element.
This seems to me a serious deficiency which can only lead
to more inline elements containing There are
a number of inline elements that might better be empty.
For example the name anchor is often kludged with
as is done many, many times in the HTML draft itself.
This should suggest that some elements ought to be
empty (perhaps even the name anchor itself), but in any
event that a generalized empty element could be a useful thing.
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