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Bug 11188 - Tags don't need closed?
Summary: Tags don't need closed?
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Validator
Classification: Unclassified
Component: check (show other bugs)
Version: HEAD
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2010-11-01 16:52 UTC by Michael D Butler
Modified: 2011-08-23 19:14 UTC (History)
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Basic page with transitional (210 bytes, text/html)
2010-11-01 16:52 UTC, Michael D Butler 		Details

Description Michael D Butler 2010-11-01 16:52:03 UTC 
Created attachment 931 [details]
Basic page with transitional

While using the validator for a class, we were attempting to demonstrate the necessity of closing the <html> tag in HTML 4.01 Transitional. This is thrown up warnings or errors in the past, but this time it did not. Same for Strict. For example, both the attach and below pages validate except for character coding warnings.



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      Hello World!
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Hello World!
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2011-08-23 19:14:52 UTC 
The end tag for many elements (such as html) is optional in HTML 4.01, look for "O" in the "End Tag" column at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/index/elements.html