- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:59:27 +0000
- To: John Lawler <jlawler@travidia.com>
- Cc: site-comments@w3.org
- Message-Id: <1165503567.3643.368.camel@localhost>
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 14:45 +0000, John Lawler wrote:
> K – not sure if this is the right way to address my question – is
> there a forum dedicated to W3C?
>
>
>
> I was just wondering, the spec page does not specify that the <style>
> element is REQUIRED to be in the <head> element, and I have had it
> work within the <body> tag, but would avoid doing so if it goes
> against the actual spec. Could you please clarify this for me? I would
> very much appreciate it, thank you.
The style element must b inside the head element per the DTD [1],
in particular:
<!ENTITY % head.misc "SCRIPT|STYLE|META|LINK|OBJECT" -- -->
- Ian
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html.
>
>
> The HTML 4 specification defines how style sheet rules may be
> specified for HTML documents: either within the HTML document, or via
> an external style sheet. To put the style sheet into the document, use
> the STYLE element:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>Bach's home page</TITLE>
> <STYLE type="text/css">
> h1 { color: red }
> </STYLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <H1>Bach's home page</H1>
> <P>Johann Sebastian Bach was a prolific composer.
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
>
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>
> John Lawler
>
> Creative Developer
>
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