[Bug 2529] Errors accepted

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=2529

           Summary: Errors accepted
           Product: Validator
           Version: HEAD
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: check
        AssignedTo: link@pobox.com
        ReportedBy: asubstitute@gmail.com
         QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org


The code below comes out as valid HTML strict yet there is an error in it. The
<h1> tag on compose is not closed correctly. Because of this- the form will not
submit in either IE (v6) or Opera (v8.5) although Firefox does submit the form.

Bad H1 code:
<h1>Compose</h1

>

Tom.

Full source:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<title>Buzzplay.com - Compose Message</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="http://buzzplay.thomasrix.org/style.css" >
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
	<div id="top_banner"></div>
<ul class="navlist">
		<li><a href="/messaging">Messaging</a></li>

		<li><a href="/logout">Logout</a></li>
</ul>

<hr>
<ul class="navlist">
<li><a href="/compose-message">New</a></li>
<li><a href="/view-inbox">Inbox</a></li>
<li><a href="/view-sent">Sent</a></li>
</ul>

	<div id="contain_sides">

		<div id="content">
			
<h1>Compose</h1

><form action="http://buzzplay.thomasrix.org/send-message" method="post">
	<p><label for="to">To</label><br><input id="to" type="text" value="" name="to"
size="20"></p>
	<p><label for="subject">Subject</label><br><input id="subject" type="text"
name="subject" size="20"></p>
	<p><label for="msg">Message</label><br><textarea id="msg" rows="25" cols="60"
name="message"></textarea></p>
	<p><input id="submit_button" type="submit" value="Send Message"></p>
</form>

</div>
<br><br>
</div></div>
<div style="text-align:center; font-size:14px; color:#000000;
font-variant:small-caps;">Powered by BuzzPlatform<sub>beta</sub></div>
</body>
</html>

Received on Wednesday, 16 November 2005 02:45:43 UTC