- From: ewitness - Ben Fowler <bfowler@ewitness.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:55:54 +0000
- To: "'www-validator@w3.org'" <www-validator@w3.org>
At 1:05 pm -0500 5/2/02, Perry, Russell wrote: >[ snip ] > >The other thing is that for title the definition >(http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-TITLE) says "Every HTML >document must have a TITLE element in the HEAD section.", but if the head >tag is entirely optional anyway, what do we do about title? These things >are a little confusing... I believe that the resolution of this apparent conundrum is that the HEAD tag is optional, but the HEAD section (element) is not. Videlicet HTML Validation Results Document Checked * Character encoding: ISO-8859-1 * Level of HTML: HTML 4.01 Transitional Congratulations, no errors! Input 1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 2 "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> 3 4 <title>Untitled</title> 5 <body> 6 The HEAD section is present, the HEAD tag is omitted (implied) 7 </body> 8 Ben.
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