[Tfug] Arg!!! HTML problems....
Michael Stenner
mstenner at ece.arizona.edu
Thu Jul 22 16:39:56 MST 2004
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:24:56PM -0700, Choprboy wrote:
> OK, ok... thanks for all the help....
>
> I think I finally figured it out... do anchor tags (i.e. [a name="#top"]) have
> to have a to have a close? There is no "link" to close... you do have to
> close a normal [a href=] though...
Yes. It's generally a good idea to make sure you close all your
tags. I even write breaks as <br />. Your "a" tag is downright
broken if not closed. The good and bad thing is that many browsers
try to be smart when they hit broken html. This is an example of when
that causes problems.
-Michael
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