On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 20:26, Tagore Smith wrote: > Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > > > Closing HTML tags is part of the specification, i.e. > > not optional for syntactically correct HTML. > > > > Such HTML only works with most browsers due to the > > proliferation of badly coded HTML. If it wasn't > > for that, then browsers wouldn't have such a hard > > time parsing HTML (and would therefore be faster). > > > > Alas, web designers cut back on HTML tags to improve > > the download times - a mixed blessing. > > Not to nitpick (but I'm going to anyway :) ), but closing some tags (like p) > is optional in all versions of HTML based on SGML. SGML allows for end tag > minimization. Closing tags is mandatory in XHTML- xml does not allow for end > tag minimization (in fact even empty tags, like img and br, must be closed). > I don't know off the top of my head if the spec allows end tag minimization > for option elements, but I agree that it is good form to close the tags. > Since recent web servers and browsers increasingly use compression, and > repeated elements compress well, bandwidth is becoming less of an issue. > > Tagore Smith
Just to take things even more off-topic: XHTML does allow single self-closing tags like this <tag />. Examples include tags that have no data to surround like <br /> and <hr />. -- Today is Pungenday the 20th day of Discord in the YOLD 3168 Missile Address: 33:48:3.521N 84:23:34.786W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
