"Empty" text

Tue Jul 10 05:30:04 EDT 2007

Miles <semanticist at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On Jul 9, 4:30 am, Nick Craig-Wood <n... at craig-wood.com> wrote:
> > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
> > >  On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:23:20 +0200, Jan Danielsson wrote:
> > > >    Firefox is very unhappy about the textarea not having separate
> > > > opening and a closing tags. i.e. I need this:
> > >
> > >  Then either Firefox is broken or you don't declare your XHTML properly and
> > >  Firefox thinks it's HTML.
> >
> > I suspect the former - we noticed exactly the same thing (can't
> > remember which tags we were having problems with), using the
> > declaration :-
> >
> >   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> >   <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> >   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> >
> > I haven't tested this again recently though.
> 
>  Firefox is not broken.  The XML prolog and DOCTYPE do not affect HTML
>  vs. XHTML interpretation--only the Content-Type does.  If you are
>  serving a page as "text/html", which you almost certainly are, then
>  all browsers will parse it as HTML, regardless of prolog and doctype,
>  and HTML does not support self-closing tags.  You need to serve the
>  page as "application/xhtml+xml", or avoid self-closing tags on
>  elements other than <img>, <br>, <link>, etc.
> 
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3

Ah very good - that solves that mystery - thank you!

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