Char-Lez Braden wrote: > > Hello, > > I am seeing some behavior I cannot explain that might be a problem with > the validator. > > This URL http://www.freecitizen.com/demo.html shows a very small HTML > document that the validator says is good, but looks I believe the HTML > is missing a </p> tag (Right above the </body> tag). When I put the > <p> tag in (http://www.freecitizen.com/demo2.html) I get the message > "Error Line 19 column 7: end tag for element "P" which is not open." > > When I look at the parse tree (demo.html) it appears to me that the > validator is inserting a </p> just before the <ul> tag. What you are missing is that the <ul> element is a Block element, and the <p> element (also a Block element) cannot contain another block element. The xhtml version of this would be: <body> <p>yack yack yack</p> <p>blah blah blah</p> <p></p> <!-- could also do <p /> --> <ul> <li><a href='http://www.freecitizen.com/'>item 1</a></li> <li><a href='http://www.freecitizen.com/'>item 2</a></li> </ul> </body> (I've squished things to make the message smaller) Because html 4.01 defines closing tags as optional for <p>, the opening <ul> implies the closing </p>, therefor putting the </p> after the </ul> closes a <p> that is, in fact, already closed. Hope this helps. -- Ian Stuart. Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team, EDINA, The University of Edinburgh. http://edina.ac.uk/Received on Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:21:30 UTC
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