Re: Missing H? tag bug

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote:

> It appears that where successive H? elements are used HTML Tidy
> is not correctly handling the result:
> 
> <h5>
> This is a heading from which I accidentally omitted the end tag
> <h6>
> This is another heading
> </h6>
> 
> This is tidied to:
> 
> <h5>
> This is a heading from which I accidentally omitted the end tag
> </h5>
> This is another heading

This was a deliberate attempt to help people who had forgotten
to place a / in the end tag of their headings. Perhaps it was
one heuristic too many!

I will look into this and try and get a feel for what's the
best thing to do.

Regards,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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Received on Saturday, 18 March 2000 08:10:39 UTC