- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:01:11 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Karl-Michael Schneider <schneide@phil.uni-passau.de>
- cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, <www-validator@w3.org>
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Karl-Michael Schneider wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 07:26:12PM +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > > * Karl-Michael Schneider wrote: > > >Below is a small test document which in my opinion is not valid html but is > > >validated by the W3C validator at http://validator.w3.org/. > > > > ><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> > > ><html> > > ><head> > > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > > > <title>Test</title> > > ></head> > > > > > ><p>Test</p> > > ></body> > > ></html> > > > > The start- and end-tags of the body element are optional, the document > > is valid. > > You mean a single end-tag of the body element without a matching start-tag (as > in the little document above) is allowed? Yes. The body start-tag is implied by the <p> tag. -- Liam Quinn
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