- From: Michael Godsey <mgodsey@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue Dec 19 00:32:08 1995
- To: www-html@w3.org, www-html-request@w3.org
Message-ID: red-63-msg951219053148MTP[01.51.00]000000b1-44091 ---------- | From: BearHeart/Bill Weinman <BearHeart@bearnet.com> | ><P> is not a container object, so there is no </P>. You can throw it | >in, and most browsers won't mind. It's not a required element, though. | > <P> is just a paragraph seperator, not a container. | | Actually, according to the DTD, <P> is a container--it contains text. | The terminating </P> is optional, but in HTML 3 it will be more useful. | ..... | And it's already implemented in Netscape 2.0 and some other browsers. | | But technically, <p> is a container. Bummer. I was afraid I mis-spoke. Problem here stems from over use of the word "container". I tend to like to think of "container" as a bracket (start/end) surrounding an object, and tend to discuss it as such. Oh well, at least the gist of what I said still holds true! ;-)
Received on Tuesday, 19 December 1995 00:32:08 UTC