Element "P" IS open!

[Barry]

Hi group,

Does anyone know why I get a W3 validator error (click the validation
link at the bottom of the page) for
http://www.polisource.com/consumer-protection.shtml saying "Line 227,
column 3: end tag for element "P" which is not open." It looks open to
me, right before the table tag. Maybe that's why the validator is still
in beta, but I thought I'd ask.

[Chris Morris]

"Barry" <ba***@polisour ce.com> writes:

Does anyone know why I get a W3 validator error (click the validation
link at the bottom of the page) for
http://www.polisource.com/consumer-protection.shtml saying "Line 227,
column 3: end tag for element "P" which is not open." It looks open to
me, right before the table tag. Maybe that's why the validator is still
in beta, but I thought I'd ask.

In HTML the end tag for <p> is optional, and implied by the start of
any block level element. So...

<p>...<table>.. .</table>...</p> is read in HTML as
<p>...</p><table>...</table>...</p> which has the unwanted closing tag
that the validator reports.

Additionally, even in a language like XHTML that doesn't have any
optional end tags, <table> cannot be contained within <p>.

--
Chris

[Steve Pugh]

"Barry" <ba***@polisour ce.com> wrote:

Does anyone know why I get a W3 validator error (click the validation
link at the bottom of the page) for
http://www.polisource.com/consumer-protection.shtml saying "Line 227,
column 3: end tag for element "P" which is not open."
Yep, you've got the end tag for a paragraph but no opening tag. The
error report is correct. Delete that stray end tag.
It looks open to me, right before the table tag.

No, that's a different paragraph. As paragraph elements can not
contain table elements the paragraph is implicitly closed as soon as
the table starts. Hence the end tag after the table isn't paired up
with any opening tag.

Steve

--
"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net > <http://steve.pugh.net/>

[Werner Partner]

Barry schrieb:

Hi group,

Does anyone know why I get a W3 validator error (click the validation
link at the bottom of the page) for
http://www.polisource.com/consumer-protection.shtml saying "Line 227,
column 3: end tag for element "P" which is not open." It looks open to
me, right before the table tag. Maybe that's why the validator is still
in beta, but I thought I'd ask.

I took away the <p> ... </p> around the <table> ... </table>
Now it's valid.

regards

Werner

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Werner Partner, 45699 Herten
http://www.sonoptikon.de

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode,
<11************ *********@z14g2 000cwz.googlegr oups.com>,
the lovely and talented Barry
broadcast on comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:

Hi group, Does anyone know why I get a W3 validator error (click the validation
link at the bottom of the page) for
http://www.polisource.com/consumer-protection.shtml saying "Line 227,
column 3: end tag for element "P" which is not open." It looks open to
me, right before the table tag. Maybe that's why the validator is still
in beta, but I thought I'd ask.

P cannot contain a table. When you opened the table you
implicitly closed the open P. That makes the close-P after the
close-table unnecessary.

I wouldn't be having anything to say about betas if I were you.

--
Lars Eighner ei*****@io.com http://www.larseighner.com/
"There are some people that if they don't know, you just can't tell 'em."
-- Louis Armstrong

[Barry]

Thanks Chris, and everyone else. I fixed it. I remember reading the
first quote below, but not the second.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.3
"Content model
Generally, block-level elements may contain inline elements and other
block-level elements."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.3.1
"The P element represents a paragraph. It cannot contain block-level
elements (including P itself)."

With all the repetition, it looks like there's competition for most
replies here.

[L�ʻie Techie]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:22:30 -0800, Barry wrote:

Hi group,

Does anyone know why I get a W3 validator error (click the validation link
at the bottom of the page) for
http://www.polisource.com/consumer-protection.shtml saying "Line 227,
column 3: end tag for element "P" which is not open." It looks open to me,
right before the table tag. Maybe that's why the validator is still in
beta, but I thought I'd ask.

Perhaps the standard only allows inline elements inside of p?

HTH,
La'ie Techie

[Barry]

Um... this is getting ridiculous. I don't think I'll be posting here
again.

[Michael Winter]

On 19/03/2005 01:57, Barry wrote:

Um... this is getting ridiculous. I don't think I'll be posting here
again.

If you're commenting on repetition, you have to realise that it can be
due to the nature of Usenet. Posts don't automatically propagate to
all servers, similarly they don't arrive instantaneously . I've seen
posts suddenly appear several days after they were supposedly posted.

This is why regulars keep telling posters to quote what they're
responding to, so that missing posts don't prevent a reader from
following the conversation.

As for posting competition, there really isn't any point. This group
doesn't collect statistics, and Steve would probably win anyway. :)
(At least against the other posters in this thread).

Of course, it could be that other posters aren't reading the rest of
the thread before answering. That does happen[1], but it's hardly
something to get worked up about. It should take far less time for you
to dismiss a duplicate answer than it did for the poster to write it.
At least appreciate their effort.

Mike
[1] You can tell because the OP might offer new information
elsewhere and the post doesn't take it into account.

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Michael Winter
Replace ".invalid" with ".uk" to reply by e-mail.

[Steve Pugh]

"Barry" <ba***@polisour ce.com> wrote:

Um... this is getting ridiculous. I don't think I'll be posting here
again.

What's rdidiculous? Please quote part of the message you're replying
to so people have some context to understand your reply. Based on your
other post I guess that you think its ridiculous that more than one
person has posted the answer to your problem. Why?

Different messages propogate at different rates. Whilst the first
dozen or so replies may have reached your news server your original
message may only just have reached someone else's server.

Steve

--
"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you,
I never answer letters and you don't like my tie." - The Doctor

Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net > <http://steve.pugh.net/>