Re: [VE][79] Error Message Feedback

On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Matt Seitz wrote:

> Maybe I am misunderstanding the HTML standard.  In HTML 4.0.1, section 9.3.1, I
> see, "The P element represents a paragraph. It cannot contain block-level
> elements (including P itself)."

Right. And ul is a block element.

> Doesn't that mean that a
> ul tag following a p tag is illegal?

No. It does not make the ul element part of the p element. The markup
<p><ul><li></ul>
is valid. It is equivalent, by HTML 4 specifications, to
<p></p><ul><li></li></ul>

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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Received on Monday, 2 August 2004 18:25:44 UTC