- From: Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 20:20:33 +0200
- To: Elizabeth Drake <elizabeth.drake@sfcollege.edu>
- Cc: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
Hi Elizabeth— > I teach web development at a college. A student submitted the page shown at the URL given below. It is missing a closing <head> tag and both <body> tags. Can you explain why the Validator gave it a perfect pass? Attached is a screenshot of the results from the Validator. some HTML tags are optional (at least under certain conditions), so this is perfectly valid. The spec describes this for every element; see e.g. the `p` element at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/grouping-content.html#the-p-element: “A p element's end tag can be omitted if…” An overview over various markup that can be omitted is available at one of my own pages (which I feel free to share as optional markup is just something I’m working with—or omitting—a lot): https://meiert.com/en/blog/optional-html/. There are different views on the practice, then; you may need to weigh any pros and cons you find. Best, Jens. -- Jens Oliver Meiert https://meiert.com/en/
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