11029 – The script does not give an error when there is no opening html tag

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Bug 11029 - The script does not give an error when there is no opening html tag

Summary: The script does not give an error when there is no opening html tag

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Validator
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	check (show other bugs)
Version:	HEAD
Hardware:	Macintosh MacOS X

Importance:	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:	2010-10-13 16:46 UTC by webmaster
Modified:	2011-08-23 18:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description webmaster 2010-10-13 16:46:43 UTC

Hi there,

I noticed that when I attempted to check a page with no opening html tag, that this error was not caught by the validator.

I created a minimal test case for you to try.
&#65279;&#65279;http://mikemoreau.com/dev/html-open.html

When I validate this url it passes the test when it should not.

Am I misunderstanding this or is there a problem with the script? Thanks!

Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2011-08-23 18:55:38 UTC

The opening html tag is optional in HTML 4.01:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-HTML

I'm not sure about HTML 5, but in any case, http://validator.nu passes your test case as valid too, which means that if this is an error, the bug should be reported according to the validator.nu bug reporting instructions:
http://about.validator.nu/#reporting-bugs