- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:20:41 +0000
- To: Benjamin HINOJOSA <benjamin.hinojosa@univ-lille3.fr>
- Cc: "www-validator @ w3. org" <www-validator@w3.org>
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:12:23PM +0100, Benjamin HINOJOSA wrote: > I really don't understand why this page is not valide because the p balise > is OPEN and CLOSED... Under HTML 4.01 rules, the end tag on <p> elements is optional. <p> elements can not contain <table> elements (and it wouldn't make sense anyway, who ever heard of a paragraph containing a table of data?), therefore the start of the <table> implies an end to the <p>. Thus when the validator reaches the </p> there is no longer an open paragraph to close. > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <p> > <table width="550" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center"> ... > </table></p> -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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