[Wikipedia-l] What a wiki table syntax needs to do to work withcurrent table layouts
Brion VIBBER
brion at pobox.com
Mon Aug 5 06:08:41 UTC 2002
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)
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