Thanks Jeremy! On Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 3:46:05 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Soren > > TW5 treats the following tags as void. This means that no terminating > </tag> is needed (indeed, if one is provided it will be ignored and treated > as plain text), and the <tag/> syntax: > > > area,base,br,col,command,embed,hr,img,input,keygen,link,meta,param,source,track,wbr > > If you don’t close any other tag then it will behave as if the missing > closing tag were at the end of the tiddler. > > I’ve updated the docs to add these details: > > https://tiddlywiki.com/#HTML%20in%20WikiText > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > On 25 Nov 2020, at 00:57, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Today I learned that I've been wrong about self-closing tags (e.g., <img > />) in HTML5 for years. The new rules > <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3558119/are-non-void-self-closing-tags-valid-in-html5> > appear > to be that they are allowed but meaningless on void elements (those that > don't allow content), and entirely disallowed on any other elements. > > Most TiddlyWiki widgets that don't have content use the self-closing > syntax in the documentation (e.g., macrocall > <https://tiddlywiki.com/#MacroCallWidget>), and state that the content is > "ignored". My question is, are these widgets defined like HTML5 void > elements, so that they won't gobble up any body content if I don't close > them? In that case, I would do best to simply stop using self-closing tags > altogether, since they no longer have any meaning in modern HTML. Or would > that potentially cause issues with the wikitext parser gobbling up other > stuff as part of the "ignored" content, so that I should continue using the > self-closing tags, but only for widgets? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/586e11d9-0d4c-4322-8e24-ec865401c510n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/586e11d9-0d4c-4322-8e24-ec865401c510n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/dcca1e5e-4583-41a8-a3d0-8d7bd5f97d8bn%40googlegroups.com.
