Posted by Stan McCann on 03/30/06 00:08

David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:e0erfq$t2g$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk:

> 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.

I knew that. I was looking for something to explain to those brand new
to HTML how to tell the difference to prevent things like <code><pre>
as my students are not understanding the validator's complaints.

>> 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).

Ah. Thanks for that; the light comes on.

> (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
>

I had looked at that many times. Only after your pointing it out did I
actually perceive what it is saying. A great example of "The more I
learn, the more I realize there is so much more to learn." Thanks
much.

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