- From: Charles Reitzel <creitzel@rcn.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:06:50 -0500
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
- Cc: "Cox, Charlie" <ccox@cincom.com>, Björn Höhrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de>
Thanks for your input. Björn, can you weigh in on empty elements with attributes? Are they prunable or no? Also, I find it very curious that you can use a DIV to position objects not contained within. Can you send a sample? I like collect interesting specimens of markup found "in the wild". thanks, Charlie At 01:57 PM 12/13/2002 -0500, Cox, Charlie wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Charles Reitzel [mailto:creitzel@rcn.com] > > Subject: Re: Empty <div> tags > > > > > > Hi Charlie, > > > > Adding an attribute should keep it from getting > > deleted, but it doesn't. For example, Tidy will > > still drop the following: > > > > <div class="foo"></div> > > > > This would be a simple fix, but I'm not sure > > what the side effects would be. > >could you make an option that would be disabled by default? > > > Am I right in thinking that empty block > > elements with attributes should not be dropped? > >This is correct. > > > Also, out of curiosity, what kind of style is > > useful for an empty DIV? > > >we have about 500 forms that are converted from PDF and they use the style >attribute that defines border-top,border-left,top,left, and width to draw >lines duplicating the converted form. > >i.e. ><DIV >STYLE="position:absolute;top:168px;left:0px;width:729px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-width:1px;border-top-color:#000000;"></DIV> > >There can be hundreds of these per form.
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