Posted by Toby Inkster on 10/10/06 08:43

Joe wrote:

> HTML comes in two basic types; Block and Inline. You can put inline
> stuff into a block, you can put a block inside another block; you can
> put inline stuff into other inline stuff, but you can never, ever, put
> BLOCK stuff into INLINE stuff.

Sure you can. SPAN is a classic inline element, and DIV is a classic block
element.

Go validate:

<p>
This is some text. Let's start an <span>inline
element.
<object>
A bit of trickery with OBJECT.
<div>This is allowed here!</div>
</object>
And don't forget to close our </span>
The end.
</p>

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