- From: Carl Benker <benker@ceco.ceco.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 15:25:08 CDT
- Cc: www-html@www0.cern.ch, www-html@www0.cern.ch
Hi, Yesterday I had posted to this mailing list a request to make list items "containers" by adding a </LI> tag to the HTML spec. I received a fair amount of email that said that I should have looked into it a little on my own, since it was already in the standard. I do not want to start a flame war or anything, and I greatly respect and appreciate the work of Tim Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly, but the source that I was using: http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec.ps which is the Sept. 22 draft of the HTML 2.0 spec doesn't show a </LI> tag. Section 5.6.1 of the draft shows the use of list elements and doesn't present the closing </LI> tag. The only reason that this has come up is that on some browsers, not using a </LI> tag results in a list being displayed horizontally instead of vertically. Maybe the spec draft could be updated to show the use of the closing tag for list items? Also, maybe the use of the closing tags for list items and paragraphs could be recommended? Just some thoughts. Carl
Received on Thursday, 28 September 1995 16:27:03 UTC