Re: What is wrong with <td/>?

Hello Eric,

First question is: how did you actually follow the link? I found my message here in the archive and the link has been stripped - presumably as an anti-spam measure. But on looking more closely, I see "Public" as part of the URL. So presumably there is a different viewing option which will show the links.

If you follow your link below again and look more closely, you will see that it validates clean because I have reverted the doctype to XHTML 1.0 Transitional. My link was included as an example of lots of <td/>s not as an example of a validator report.

So now try:
  a.. XHTML version - validates clean. 
  b.. HTML5 version - masses of errrors. (It also does not how to sort the names! But that is a completely different bug.)

I also received a reply from David Dorward who pointed me to the specification and said it is not a bug. But I still think it is retrogression!

Roger

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eric Richards 
  To: Roger W Haworth 
  Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 3:16 PM
  Subject: Re: What is wrong with <td/>?


  Hello Rodger have you fix it already it works OK now 


  https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Frhaworth.net%2Fshakes%2Fshaxref.php%3Fmat%26f%3Dasyoulikeit%26n%3D0&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

  From Eric


  On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Roger W Haworth <W@rhaworth.net> wrote:

    In this page for example I use lots of self-closing <td/>s. When I declare the doctype to be HTML5 the validator says:
      Self-closing syntax (/>) used on a non-void HTML element. Ignoring the slash and treating as a start tag.
    I cannot see anything wrong with <td/>. Please tell the validator to stop rejecting it.

    Roger W Haworth