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08/04/2008, 21h21

Bart Lateur wrote:
> In the DTD of HTML 4.01, <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html>,
> it states that the only legal elements in the BODY element are block
> tags (and a few more: SCRIPT, INS and DEL):

[...]

>
> So, if I get this correctly, it is not legal to put text, or inline
> elements (text formatting, SPAN) directly into a BODY tag. None of these
> tags are implied. Yet, people do it all the time.
>
> What gives? Am I misunderstanding the spec, or a people doing it wrong?
>

People are either doing it wrong, or else using a transitional doctype
where it is allowed.

Nick

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08/04/2008, 21h21	#4
Nick Theodorakis Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: question about the BODY tag in the HTML DTD Bart Lateur wrote: > In the DTD of HTML 4.01, <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html>, > it states that the only legal elements in the BODY element are block > tags (and a few more: SCRIPT, INS and DEL): [...] > > So, if I get this correctly, it is not legal to put text, or inline > elements (text formatting, SPAN) directly into a BODY tag. None of these > tags are implied. Yet, people do it all the time. > > What gives? Am I misunderstanding the spec, or a people doing it wrong? > People are either doing it wrong, or else using a transitional doctype where it is allowed. Nick -- Nick Theodorakis nick_theodorakis@hotmail.com contact form: http://theodorakis.net/contact.html