>At 10:48 AM -0800 12/2/98, Kayla Block wrote:
>>At 09:41 PM 12/1/98 -0800, Kathy E. Gill wrote:
>>>talk about making it hard to teach proper table structure in my HTML class!
>>>MSIE renders a table even w/out the closing TRs and TABLE tags!!
>>
>>Actually, unclosed <tr> tags are perfectly legal according to any html
>>spec. So are unclosed <td> tags. I still consider it to be poor form though.
>>OTOH, an unclosed <table> tag is not legal in any html spec.
>
>
>i knew unclosed <td>s were legal [but poor form, imo] - but i thought you
>had to close <tr>s
While unclosed <td>s may be "legal", the fact is that in some cases where I
have inadvertently forgot a </td> it has caused problems sometimes. It's
not only poor form to not use closing tags in a table, it's a recipe for
trouble!
Barry
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Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
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