4923 2007-08-08 20:22:22 +0000 Long single-tag comments fail to validate 2007-08-08 22:43:35 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Validator Parser HEAD PC Windows XP RESOLVED INVALID P2 normal --- 1 TerryRoddy dave.null TerryRoddy www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 16087 0 TerryRoddy 2007-08-08 20:22:22 +0000  is accepted as a valid comment, but anything longer is not. Thus, the following throws several errors on the comment-line: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" > <html> <head> <title>Test</title> </head> <body>  </body> </html> This also holds true if the comment-endpoints are space-delimited: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" > <html> <head> <title>Test</title> </head>    <body> Hello, World! </body> </html> 16088 1 ot 2007-08-08 22:43:35 +0000 That's not a bug: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.4 http://htmlhelp.com/reference/wilbur/misc/comment.html