- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:26:04 +0100
- To: Jerry Peek <jpeek@jpeek.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On 21 Sep 2009, at 00:20, Jerry Peek wrote: > Hi, all. The page http://tucsonart.info/murals/ie_test.html wouldn't > display correctly in several versions of Internet Explorer, though > Validator reported "This document was successfully checked as HTML > 4.01 Transitional!" (http://validator.w3.org/, version v0.8.5, as of > today, 20 September 2009). > > I eventually found an invalid closing comment tag inside the <style> > block in the <head> section. In HTML, <style> elements contain CDATA. It isn't an invalid comment, it is just a part of the stylesheet. See http://dorward.me.uk/www/comments-cdata/ for the history of these. There is nothing invalid about this, but it is something that would be useful for a general HTML lint to pick up. (Please direct responses to the mailing list, and not directly to me) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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