> On 21 Nov 2007, at 05:12, David Hucklesby wrote: > >> Trying to help a friend with their form markup, I suggested they look up the >> W3C >> specifications. Their question was "does the input tag require a closing >> "</input>". >> I told them categorically "no" but was embarrassed to see this in the W3C >> specs[1]: >> >> <!ELEMENT INPUT - O EMPTY -- form control --> >> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:20:00 +0000, David Dorward replied: > > From: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.3 > > 'The hyphen and the following "O" indicate that the end tag can be omitted, > but > together with the content model "EMPTY", this is strengthened to the rule > that the end > tag must be omitted.'
Thank you David, That's more encouraging. :) I see now that I am reading the specifications incorrectly. I expected to see an "N" instead of the "O" -- but that's not the way the specs are written. I did "RTFM" -- I just did not read far enough. :\ Cordially, David -- ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
