- From: Ben Ellis <ben.ellis@softweyr.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:26:38 +0000
- To: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
Received on Saturday, 24 March 2012 00:18:43 UTC
Thanks for clarifying that for me! On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>wrote: > 2012-03-20 18:33, David Dorward wrote: > > On 20 Mar 2012, at 09:12, Ben Ellis wrote: >> >>> I glanced at the specification and it states that it >>> MUST contain an HTML tag, but the W3C validator and most browsers will >>> successfully parse an HTML document without an HTML tag. >>> >> >> "An html element's start tag may be omitted if the first thing inside the >> html element is not a comment." >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/**syntax.html#optional-tags<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#optional-tags> >> > > HTML5 is work in progress, and any HTML5 validation is experimental (and > does not necessarily reflect the most recent HTML5 draft). > > According to approved specifications, the tags <html> and </html> are > always optional in HTML, except in XHTML, where they are always required. > > Yucca > > > > >
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