27319 2014-11-13 19:55:11 +0000 Examples: comments when omitting start and end tags 2015-12-04 10:43:03 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED MOVED https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-html-element [good first bug] P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk ian mike senol.veli zcorpan contributor oldest_to_newest 114897 0 contributor 2014-11-13 19:55:11 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-html-element Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-html-element Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ Comment: neither Validator nor any browser got a problem with immediately followed comments when not defining start-/ and end-tags Posted from: 77.187.84.131 by senol.veli@gmail.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/38.0.2125.122 Safari/537.36 114907 1 ian 2014-11-13 23:52:34 +0000 Can you elaborate? 114922 2 zcorpan 2014-11-14 09:15:55 +0000 I assume this is about "Tag omission in text/html:" The "problem" is that the comment ends up at a different place in the DOM. Compare http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3294 vs http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3295 and http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3296 vs http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3297 The spec says that tags can only be omitted if doing so does not change the resulting DOM. But if you're OK with the changed DOM then it's fine. It's equivalent to first editing the document to move the tags to where they can be omitted and then omitting them. 115587 3 senol.veli 2014-11-27 01:03:14 +0000 Thanks, this is the information I was looking for, the DOM is a different one, so one should care, even if there is no error given back from a validator. 115639 4 ian 2014-11-28 04:18:15 +0000 I guess maybe an example would help. 115785 5 senol.veli 2014-12-02 13:30:06 +0000 Yeas, I think also taht an example would help people to catch this point. May be an example that could be used in same manner for head-/ and body-element. may be showing what happens or just mentioning the result in DOM. regards 124361 6 zcorpan 2015-12-04 10:43:03 +0000 https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/383