[Wikipedia-l] What a wiki table syntax needs to do to work withcurrent table layouts

[Brion VIBBER]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> Brion VIBBER wrote:
>>Actually, that's not true in HTML; the <table> tag is the only one that
>>has to be closed. A lot of people close the others out of habit (I think
> 
> As far as I know, the standard requires all table related tags to be
> closed,

Nope: tr, td, and th do not have to be closed.

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tables.html

 > but some browsers (notably MSIE) manage to render the table
> even if the HTML code violates the standard.  HTML validators barf on
> tables with unbalanced tags.  Still, this is beside my point.

With _unbalanced_ tags, sure. With correctly structed tables with 
omitted close tags, they would be in blatant disregard of the standard 
if they barf.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)