- From: Debbie Mitchell <debbiem@companyv.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:48:56 -0700
- To: Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com>
- Cc: Elizabeth Drake <elizabeth.drake@sfcollege.edu>, "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
Wow Jens, seriously thank you for that! Sent from a goofy cellphone > On Sep 19, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Jens Oliver Meiert <jens@meiert.com> wrote: > > 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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