Re: Missing closing li tag, "document was successfully checked as HTML 4.01 Transitional!" from David Dorward on 2010-01-26 (www-validator@w3.org from January 2010)

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:31:16 +0000
To: Axel Christiansen <axel.christiansen@piranha.de>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <55B7CBB5-57E5-45FE-BAF9-3C35F70E7E30@dorward.me.uk>

On 26 Jan 2010, at 12:12, Axel Christiansen wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 
> This doc snippet has validated all right, even with
> a missing "closing li tag".
> 
> Should it be that way?


Yes. End tags for li elements may be omitted. 

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.3.3
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/lists.html#h-10.2

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David Dorward
http://dorward.me.uk

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