Implicitly closing tags of DOOM
XoreEarlier this evening, I finished off polishing up some changes to a website for a client, and figured i’d toss in an html validation to round it out and add that extra level of shiny.
It backfired on me. A little bit. I’ve been doing too much coding on the interior processes and algorithms of websites that i sometimes lose sight of the fact that what my end result is, is in fact, an html document. I guess i’ve been lucky up to this point insofar as I usually leave the html portions of a site to a template engine, in essense passing it off to the graphic designers and work purely on content generation, never really needing to get my hands dirty (so to speak) with spaghetti html.
Anyway, I hereby add this little nugget of html knowledge into my headpository. Hello Xore. Wake up and smell the <div>s. Oh well. Time for sleep. Meeting with clients tomorrow morning, where tomorrow is today and morning optionally contains a “u”.
May 18th, 2005 at 4:15 am
Ahh, I’ve seen this one before. What you must understand is that you can’t have a list in a paragraph. A will explicitly close any open paragraph. I was told to think of it like this: A list is a paragraph in itself, so why place it inside a paragraph to begin with?
Anyway, have fun with the validator. There’s more errors out there that are fun
NeoThermic
May 18th, 2005 at 6:11 pm
Xore I love your impersonation of the ‘net 1337 n0obs
June 29th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Validators are a bitch. I actually totally destroyed a layout by validating it. >