xhtml and the p tag

[Daniel Austin]

Mark,

	This has not changed from HTML 4.0. All of your paragraphs in XHTML
documents should be enclosed with <p>...</p>
element delimiters. Since the <p> element is itself a block level element,
it cannot itself contain any block level elements.
The construction <p/> has to my knowledge never been acceptable markup in
either HTML or XHTML documents.

Regards,

D-

(speaking for myself, rather than any working group or corporation)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark D. Anderson [mailto:mda at discerning.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 1999 3:50 PM
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> Cc: dsr at w3.org
> Subject: xhtml and the p tag
> 
> 
> (not sure where xhtml discussion should go; all i see on the 
> www-html at w3.org
> list are stultifying discussions about tag case-sensitivity.)
> 
> in the strict dtd from http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html-in-xml/ ,
> the p element is %Inline, which means it can't include any
> block level elements such as ul. So now we have a quandary.
> 
> in practical terms, what i usually want is something 
> like a non-existent <parabreak/>. That doesn't exist, because
> in browsers a <br/> breaks the line; it doesn't end the
> paragraph, and particularly now with xhtml, <p/> is
> deprecated. But even if I *did* the extra work to wrap
> <p> ... </p> around my paragraphs, that still wouldn't
> work, because a p can't enclose any block level elements
> such as a ul.
> 
> -mda
> 
> 
> 
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