- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 17:24:16 -0400
- To: benker@ceco.ceco.com (Carl Benker)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
In message <9509282025.AA08151@ceco.ceco.com>, Carl Benker writes: > 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. Touche! On the other hand, it does say: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_1.html#SEC1 |Introduction | [...] | |As HTML is an application of SGML, this specification assumes |a working knowledge of [SGML]. This is an unfortunate property of the HTML 2.0 spec. I'm working on supplementary documentation to remove the need to buy and grok a copy of the SGML standard just to read the HTML spec. http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_3.html#SEC12 |Tags | [...] | |Some elements only have a start-tag without an end-tag. For |example, to create a line break, use the `<BR>' tag. Additionally, |the end tags of some other elements, such as Paragraph (`</P>'), |List Item (`</LI>'), Definition Term (`</DT>'), and Definition |Description (`</DD>') elements, may be omitted. > 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. This is a bug. An HTML user agent is required to behave exactly the same whether the </LI> is present or not. It's in the conformance clause of the spec. > Maybe the spec draft >could be updated to show the use of the closing tag for list >items? Not for 6 months :-) It's been approved as Proposed Standard. The next chance to revise it is when it moves to Draft Standard. > Also, maybe the use of the closing tags for list items >and paragraphs could be recommended? Doesn't sound like a good idea. Dan
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