div inside a p

[Jeff Thies]

I have this in IE5 windows:

<p style="color: red">
<div>This is not red</div>
and this is red
</p>

Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?

Jeff

[David Dorward]

Jeff Thies wrote:

Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?

http://validator.w3.org/ is your friend.

But - yes. Paragraphs can only hold inline content.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

[Matthias Gutfeldt]

Jeff Thies wrote:

I have this in IE5 windows:

<p style="color: red">
<div>This is not red</div>
and this is red
</p>

Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?

Never - well, never if you're using W3C HTML. There might be other HTML
versions that allow it :-).
Matthias

[Thomas Scholz]

David Dorward gestand:

Jeff Thies wrote:

Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?

But - yes. Paragraphs can only hold inline content.

<p><object><div>Hello World!</div></object></p>

:-)

Thomas

[Thomas Scholz]

David Dorward gestand:

Jeff Thies wrote:

Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?

But - yes. Paragraphs can only hold inline content.

<p><object><div>Hello World!</div></object></p>

:-)

Thomas

[David Dorward]

Jeff Thies wrote:

Thanks, I stumbled across this at the W3C just now:

<FORM action="http://somesite.com/prog/adduser" method="post">
<P>
First name: <INPUT type="text" name="firstname"><BR> .... </P>
</FORM>

Which oddly enough is almost exactly what I was trying to do. But
without the zig zag alignment. Looks like I'll have to do this with divs
instead.

Probably better with <label>, <fieldset>, <legend> and some CSS. Have a look
at the contact form on my site (see sig) for an example.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

[David Dorward]

Jeff Thies wrote:

Thanks, I stumbled across this at the W3C just now:

<FORM action="http://somesite.com/prog/adduser" method="post">
<P>
First name: <INPUT type="text" name="firstname"><BR> .... </P>
</FORM>

Which oddly enough is almost exactly what I was trying to do. But
without the zig zag alignment. Looks like I'll have to do this with divs
instead.

Probably better with <label>, <fieldset>, <legend> and some CSS. Have a look
at the contact form on my site (see sig) for an example.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/