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Posted by John Hosking on 06/02/07 15:48
Knut Krueger wrote:
> Hi all,
> why is the code reported as valid?
> IE and Opera will display nothing without the > after the link
I don't know. Maybe Jukka or Ben or somebody experienced in reading DTDs
can explain why it's allowed.
I pasted your code into the "Validate by Direct Input" box at
http://validator.w3.org/ and found that the code is indeed deemed to be
valid. Also valid is this simpler variant:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>More of a Parse Question</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<A </A>
</p>
</body>
</html>
I can only guess that this is an instance of one of those little-known
auto-terminating tags (although it doesn't seem to be a proper "null end
tag") that seem to work because they are rooted in SGML, but which
nobody (like, say, browser developers) knows about.
Sorry I can't be of more help. I'm interested in knowing the answer, too.
--
John
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