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Created attachment 1459 [details] screenshot of validator missing p tags I used chrome version 33 on windows 7. I pasted in this simple markup below and it did not report an error or even a warning even though i had a missing </p> tags. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <title> Practice HTML </title> <body> <h1> My First Heading </h1> <p> My First Paragraph <p> <hr> <!--the hr element is used to separate content --> <p> I'm studying from <a href="http://www.w3schools.com" target="_blank">w3schools</a>. <p> What does <q>the element do</q> to this.</p> <p>"Hey I'm a quote!" <p>"Hey will it work"</p> </body> </html> The only warnings it produced were these 3: 1. Info Using experimental feature: HTML5 Conformance Checker. 2. Info No Character encoding declared at document level 3. Using Direct Input mode: UTF-8 character encoding assumed
I found exactly the same bug now: also had a missing closing "</p>" tag inside an HTML document and the validator didn't find it! It would be really great if someone could take a look on this bug. Thank you!
I also found exactly the same bug today. As a result I now use xmllint to validate the syntax of the page! Actually, missing OPEN tags are also overlooked by the validator, just see: http://calimero.tk/paste/w3cfail.html It's all green: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcalimero.tk%2Fpaste%2Fw3cfail.html&ss=1
End tags are not required for the p element. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#the-p-element