- From: <html-tidy@war-of-the-worlds.org>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:40:38 -0600
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
Jim Angstadt <jima@gvn.net> wrote:
> Tidy modifies the following code samples:
Apparently XML or XHTML.
> <br clear=all> or
In XML, attribute values must be quoted, and empty tags end with />
> <br clear="all" /> or
That one is the same as your output. No change.
> <br clear="all"></br>
The br tag is not a container, so can't have a </br>.
> to the following:
>
> <br clear="all" />
Reasonable.
> on my Windows 98 box, while reporting:
>
> Tidy (vers 13th January 2000) Parsing "snow.html"
> line 20 column 6 - Warning: trimming empty <p>
Maybe, under XML, Tidy doesn't like a <br> outside a <p>. Seems a strange
error message though if that were the case. Also, it would complain about
the <a> not having a container.
If you could cite a URL to the full page that exhibits the behavior it
would be much easier to diagnose.
> Re-running Tidy results in the same warning message for each instance of
> the Tidied br element.
>
> Question 1. Why does Tidy report an empty <p> and not an empty <br>?
Because <br>s are always empty; they aren't containers.
> Question 2. Is there a better, or more preferred, way to do this?
Working from your example markup, try putting the <br clear="all" /> as the
last content your last paragraph? Further, put the <a>...</a> as the first
content of your first paragraph.
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