Re: Lack of end tag messes up form styling - a known bug?

On Apr 11, 1:23 am, Joost Diepenmaat <jo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
VK <schools_r...@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Apr 10, 2:48 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The "error" is lack of the "optional" </p> tag right before a form.

The P element is being changed from the original paragraph separator
to a block element back in HTML 3.2 or even earlier if I recall
properly. The last time I saw P used as a paragraph separator on the
Web is about 1997-98, so your sample is the first in over ten years.
What actuality do you actually imply by your case?

Not so fast. From the HTML 4.01 specs,http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#edef-P

9.3.1 Paragraphs: the P element

<!ELEMENT P - O (%inline;)* -- paragraph -->
<!ATTLIST P
%attrs; -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
>

Start tag: required, End tag: optional

I did not mean that it is wrong. I am well aware of "P issue" and
explained it several times at ciwah - where this issue is better
suited IMO - see for instance
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html/msg/1a1685c07c06d971

I am just saying that no one ever widely used it even at the time when
P was officially a paragraph break and not a container - except some
really amateurish pages. So making an issue out of it now is kind of
checking XMP or ISINDEX tag support amidst modern browsers.

IMHO

.

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