Re: inline vs. block

David Dorward <dorward@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Stan McCann wrote:

How is a novice to tell the difference between an inline and block
level element?

The basic difference is that blocks have a line break before and
after them, while inline flow beside each other and word wrap.

I knew that. I was looking for something to explain to those brand new
to HTML how to tell the difference to prevent things like <code><pre>
as my students are not understanding the validator's complaints.

For many elements, it is marked as in:
<!ELEMENT FORM - - (%block;|SCRIPT)+ -(FORM) -- interactive form
-->

For others, it seems that this is incorrect:
<!ELEMENT ADDRESS - - (%inline;)* -- information on author -->

Is this saying that address (p and possibly others) are inline
elements or am I reading it wrong?

You are. That says that the ADDRESS element may contain "zero or
more elements in the group %inline" (and nothing else).

Ah. Thanks for that; the light comes on.

(The form bit says it may contain one or more elements which are
either script or in the group %block except other FORM elements).

Is there someplace else in the specification
that states whether an element is inline or block?

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/dtd.html#block


I had looked at that many times. Only after your pointing it out did I
actually perceive what it is saying. A great example of "The more I
learn, the more I realize there is so much more to learn." Thanks
much.

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