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Bug 21122 - there is ambiguity here regarding whether a non-void normal element must have an end tag. mozilla seems to think that this section on normalelements means that close tags are optional. therefore thei [...]
Summary: there is ambiguity here regarding whether a non-void normal element must hav...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 21123
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-02-26 10:47 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-04-01 17:04 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2013-02-26 10:47:46 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/syntax.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#elements-0
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#elements-0

Comment:
there is ambiguity here regarding whether a non-void normal element  must have
an end tag. mozilla seems to think that this section on normalelements means
that close tags are optional. therefore their bookmarks.html file doesn't all
have close tags. somehow this seems wrong. been this way for years. please
clarify if non-void elements must have both start and end tags.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-04-01 17:04:54 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21123 ***