Re: CSS on invalid HTML

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Max Romantschuk wrote:
>
> Just as an interesting sidenote: I've noticed that Opera (at least
> version 7.5) seems to use a rather fragile parsing engine, as this
> (valid) XHTML tag will cause Opera to mess up it's styling:
>
> <span />
>
> Everything before the tag will be styled correctly, but anything after
> the tag will not be styled.

Do you have a testcase demonstrating this? (My guess is you are sending
the file as text/html, which means that the file must be interpreted as
HTML, not XML, and therefore it is treated as if the "/" wasn't there.)

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