Posted by David Dorward on 03/29/06 23:40

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.

> 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).

(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

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