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Bug 25119 - Closing head tag
Summary: Closing head tag
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML Checker
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: qa-dev tracking
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Reported: 2014-03-21 11:58 UTC by Pawel
Modified: 2015-08-23 07:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Test file (136 bytes, text/html)
2014-03-21 11:58 UTC, Pawel 		Details

Description Pawel 2014-03-21 11:58:26 UTC 
Created attachment 1455 [details]
Test file

The Validator doesn't report a problem when head tag is NOT closed. The file I have attached is valid due to the Validator.
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2014-03-24 17:43:38 UTC 
(In reply to Pawel from comment #0)
> The Validator doesn't report a problem when head tag is NOT closed.

That's because the head element doesn't require an end tag—

  http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-head-element