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David Stone 01-31-2008
Posted by David Stone on January 31, 2008, 1:08 pm
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 If I have a div containing _only_ a single line of text, containing
only such elements as <span> or <a>, is it _required_ to nest
that text within a <p> under html 4?

Example:

<div class="fine-print">
Standard <a href="disclaimer.html">disclaimers</a> apply
</div>

- or -

<div class="fine-print">
<p>Standard <a href="disclaimer.html">disclaimers</a> apply</p>
</div>

?

Posted by VK on January 31, 2008, 1:39 pm
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> If I have a div containing _only_ a single line of text, containing
> only such elements as <span> or <a>, is it _required_ to nest
> that text within a <p> under html 4?

Of course not. You can put either block and inline element in it.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd


Posted by Harlan Messinger on January 31, 2008, 1:51 pm
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David Stone wrote:
> If I have a div containing _only_ a single line of text, containing
> only such elements as <span> or <a>, is it _required_ to nest
> that text within a <p> under html 4?
>
> Example:
>
> <div class="fine-print">
> Standard <a href="disclaimer.html">disclaimers</a> apply
> </div>
>
> - or -
>
> <div class="fine-print">
> <p>Standard <a href="disclaimer.html">disclaimers</a> apply</p>
> </div>

No, not at all, though if the content is basically a paragraph in form,
then semantically speaking it should be in a <p> anyway.

Posted by Andreas Prilop on February 1, 2008, 9:13 am
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, David Stone wrote:

> <div class="fine-print">
> Standard <a href="disclaimer.html">disclaimers</a> apply
> </div>
>
> - or -
>
> <div class="fine-print">
> <p>Standard <a href="disclaimer.html">disclaimers</a> apply</p>
> </div>

Get rid of divitis!

<p class="fine-print">Standard
<a href="disclaimer.html">disclaimers</a> apply</p>

--
Bugs in Internet Explorer 7
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/ie7-bugs

Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on February 1, 2008, 2:03 pm
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Scripsit Andreas Prilop:

> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, David Stone wrote:
>
>> <div class="fine-print">
>> Standard <a href="disclaimer.html">disclaimers</a> apply
>> </div>

There's nothing wrong with that as markup, except perhaps the class
name.

> Get rid of divitis!
>
> <p class="fine-print">Standard
> <a href="disclaimer.html">disclaimers</a> apply</p>

Stop p'ing. Three words don't constitute a paragraph.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


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