- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:45:10 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Bertha Bartholomew <berthabart@hotmail.com>
- Cc: "www-html@w3.org" <www-html@w3.org>
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Bertha Bartholomew wrote: > > Why does HTML 4.01 not require a closing </li> for the <li> tag? It > requires the closing segment for other container tags (e.g., <p> > requires a </p>). Actually, the </p> is not required. Neither are </td>, </tr>, and a bunch of others. The reason they are not required is that the SGML rules unambiguously define where the end tags are implied. > If HTML 4.01 is to help us get ready for XHTML The goal of XHTML 4.01 is not to help us get ready for XHTML. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL "meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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