RE: Declaring <h1> display:inline creates invalid XHTML (Strict) - an y ideas? from Jon Hanna on 2003-08-13 (w3c-wai-ig@w3.org from July to September 2003)

From: Jon Hanna <jon@spin.ie>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 18:12:02 +0100
To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Message-ID: <NDBBLCBLIMDOPKMOPHLHOEGOFHAA.jon@spin.ie>

> the whole <h1> wrapped fairly crudely. By changing this to
> display:inline I
> was able to achieve nicer letter by letter wrapping and no longer
> needed to
> specify a fixed width for the page to prevent horrible wrapping -
> unfortunately this does not validate 'strict'.

HTML validation is not related to the CSS (as long as the link between the
HTML and CSS is done correctly), so while I'm not sure it is wise to make
<h1> inline it isn't the problem.

You have the <h1> element inside a <span> elemement. They are not allowed
there, even if the h1 is no longer visually a block it is still a logical
block.

Received on Wednesday, 13 August 2003 13:08:01 UTC