- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:57:18 +0200
- To: <g.gabler@freenet.de>, <www-validator@w3.org>
g.gabler@freenet.de wrote: > I am the webmaster of http://www.mode-shop.org and we had some > troubles when using the W3 validator. > > We recieved an error with this line of html code: > I see an empty line. The page http://www.mode-shop.org validates OK. So what is the problem? > The Validator did not like the closed tag. Validators are just dull programs. They don't have emotions. > Shouldn't it be allowd to > close the meta-tag? All tags must be closed in all versions of HTML. Methods of closing tags vary, though, in theory. Moreover, you may have a problem with closing an _element_. According to my crystal ball (which is getting rather dim due to heavy use), you tried to validate an XHTML document, or a document with XHTML features, declared as (e.g.) HTML 4.01. Then you get error messages about e.g. constructs like <meta name="foo" content="bar" /> - not because closing the tag or the element wouldn't be allowed but because the slash character (/) has already closed it, by formal HTML 4.01 rules, and the greater than sign (>) is then just character data, which isn't allowed inside a head element. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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