- From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 15:48:29 -0500
- To: <html-tidy@w3.org>
> What possible reason would you have for empty tags? What are you trying to > style when there is nothing to style inside the tags? With DHTML (the DOM) you can add content. > According to the DTD, TABLE requires TBODY, either explicitly or > implicitly, which in turn requires at least one TR where each contains at > least one TD or TH. It is just not legal to have <TABLE></TABLE>, ID > attribute or no. (Adjust case appropriately for XML.) With TABLE, yes. But her example of <span id="foo"></span> is entirely legit. You can tell Tidy to leave empty <P>s alone with the "drop-empty-paras" option, but apparently not DIVs or SPANS. I've previously tricked Tidy before by changing empty SPANs and DIVs to something like <span id="foo"> </span>. IMO, there should be a "drop-empty-elements-with-IDs" option (though with hopefully a shorter name :). Or better yet, just a "drop-empty-elements" option, period. drop-empty-paras was too focused on one element. /Jelks
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