Posted by 0dev on 07/19/07 17:39

On Jul 16, 5:01 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> These days, such document errors typically reflect the common cluelessness
> of mixing HTML and XHTML. Using e.g. <meta ... /> in an HTML 4.01 document
> means, by specifications, that the "/" closes the meta tag and ">" is
> character data, which thus implicitly closes the head element and opens the
> body element. This goes, of course, far above the heads of authors who blame
> a validator for their own errors.


No need to be rude. Thanks for the tip though.

The closed meta tag was copied and pasted from Google's Webmaster
Control Panel. I assumed that closing all elements in HTML was
optional (e.g. closing tag of </p> is optional).

[Back to original message]