On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 16 October 2012 23:15, Erwin <yves_duf...@mac.com> wrote: >> Thanks , I had that feeling... I'll test it by tomorrow ... is there >> any links related to this being illegal ? just for my notetaker >> pad ... > > If ever you have any markup and you just want to check whether it is > legal you can paste it into the w3c html validator and it will check > it for you. In fact any time a page is misbehaving in a strange way > it is a good idea to check the html for validity, and before any page > is made public it should be checked. Even if a page looks ok there > may still be invalid html there which can make it perform differently > on different browsers.
Since I didn't see the rest of this I'll just comment as if it's future-proofed markup. In HTML5 <form /> simply means <form>, it's a grey area, it's not allowed but it's parsed and even has parsing rules but it means <form> so you will end up with a parsing error eventually possibly. It has parsing rules because of XML and XHTML. It does not mean <form></form> like most people assume. While I agree with Colin that you should check with the W3 validator I also think that you should take any of the HTML5 markup validations with a grain of salt and refer to the spec http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/ because there are grey areas that will get you later. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
