- From: Daniel Bratell <bratell@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 08:58:58 +0200
On Mon, 3 May 2004 11:05:39 -0700, L. David Baron <dbaron at dbaron.org> wrote: > On Monday 2004-05-03 15:30 +0200, Daniel Bratell wrote: >> In the web forms 2 specification 2.15, it says that content in <input> >> elements shouldn't be displayed. That is not backwards compatible for >> HTML. Current browsers move the content of the <input> element to after >> the <input> element, and I think it would be best if the specification >> reflected current practice. > > They do? > > In traditional HTML, <input> is an empty-tag, not a start-tag, so > there's no such thing as contents of an input element. In XHTML, > neither Opera nor Mozilla display the contents of an input (I didn't > test Safari). I assumed that the specification refered to whatever is between an <input> and </input> but if that construct isn't legal in HTML (always parsed as <input /> and "illegal-tag", then I withdraw my objection. /Daniel
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