- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:37:45 +0000
- To: Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto <alaorbarroso@hotmail.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 09:14 +0000, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > Why when i closing the empty tag <area> like in the sentence: > > <area shape="rect" coords="434,131,499,151" href="http://web_address" > alt="Principal" /> > > The HTML Validator send an error like this: > > You have used character data somewhere it is not permitted to appear. A URI to the full document is usually helpful. The most likely cause of this is that you are using XHTML style self-closing tags in an HTML document. <foo /> has different meanings in HTML and XHTML and you should not use XHTML style self closing tags in HTML.. -- David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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