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Nesting of HTML elements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert C Powell)
Tue Oct 11 09:48:04 1994
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:53:17 +0100
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From: bpowell@netcom.com (Robert C Powell)
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Hello. Can anyone point me to a definitive answer as to whether
or not HTML tags - for headers and text elements - can be nested
and have the appearence be relatively consistent
(not completely dependant on the specific HTML parser used)
vs. non-nested tags.
In english, is browser performance well defined for cases like:
<BODY>
<H1> heading1 <P>
<H2> heading 2 <P>
<H3> heading 3 <P>
</H3>
</H2>
</H1>
</BODY>
vs. (will this appear the same as)
<BODY>
<H1> heading1 <P> </H1>
<H2> heading 2 <P> </H2>
<H3> heading 3 <P> </H3>
</BODY>
even in the same browser? (MacMosaic is yes, MacWeb is no).
The HTML DTD does mention
<!ENTITY % stext -- as htext but also nested structure --
"P | HR | %list | DL | ADDRESS
| PRE | BLOCKQUOTE
| %literal | %htext">
but I have to admit to ignorance in reading BNF grammer,
such as in the DTD, correctly.
Your experience and advice is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Bob Powell
