On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:04 PM, James Jeffery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A very silly question that I cannot believe I am asking. > > I have never had to use <img> within the body tag. I was playing about with > a test case for a client and happened to put <img> directly within the body > (was for an image on screen with next and prev. links ... a gallery). > > I validated, and it was saying <img> needs to be contained. I checked the > specs but could not see anything that was stating this. > > In the real application it wouldn't be directly within the body, because it > would be within a page section <div> anyway, but am just curious.
The specs say that inline elements have to be contained within block level elements. IMG is inline, DIV is block. BODY is neither. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
