I understand both the questioner's and the responders points, but what is less clear is why the validator proposes the use of <P> tags at all; surely the recommendation to insert code would be less likely to cause errors and/or confuision if it restricted itself to recommending solely the <IMG ...> tag with a caveat about "in a suitable context" ? Philip Taylor, RHBNC -------- David Dorward wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 17:48, Newman, Chuck wrote: > [The validator said:] > > This Page Is Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional! > > ...and stated that I could add the following HTML to the page. > ... > > I did so, and then the page would no longer validate -- it complained > > about the <p> directive. > > Then you probably tried to add the code to a section of HTML which can > not contain paragraphs, most likely within an inline element such as > <font>. > > I don't think its the responsibility of the validator to provide > instruction on where paragraphs are allowed in HTML documents. > > -- > David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk/>Received on Monday, 23 February 2004 13:24:26 UTC
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