[lug] Web Layers

[Ken Weinert]

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On Friday 17 May 2002 12:17, you wrote:
> <p>
> I started closing paragraph tags a long time ago.  Good intentions but it's
> apparently based on a bad assumption.  Netscape v4.79 tolerated this bad
> syntax as does MSIE.  Netscape v6.0 has a problem but this appears to be
> because it's BAD SYNTAX.  My fault.
> </p>  <!--  This is bad -->

Actually, according to the HTML 4.01 spec it is allowed, but optional.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html

9.3.1 Paragraphs: the P element

<!ELEMENT P - O (%inline;)*            -- paragraph -->
<!ATTLIST P
  %attrs;                              -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
  >


Start tag: required, End tag: optional

Attributes defined elsewhere

 id, class (document-wide identifiers)
 lang (language information), dir (text direction)
 title (element title)
style (inline style information )
align (alignment)
onclick, ondblclick,  onmousedown, onmouseup,  onmouseover, onmousemove,  
onmouseout, onkeypress,  onkeydown, onkeyup (intrinsic events )

The  P element represents a paragraph. It cannot contain block-level elements 
(including P itself).

We discourage authors from using empty P elements. User agents should ignore 
empty  P elements.

And yes, according to the DTD, <DIV> is block level and <SPAN> is character 
level.

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