Yeah, p's used to be one of the few tags that didn't need a closure. And all browsers still understand unclosed p's. But technically, now that they are trying to transition to xhtml (which would have any html document be a valid xml document) every tag has to be closed. I think there is even some new thing where you are supposed to have a weird space inside the closing tag: &_lt;/p &_gt; . But honestly I don't keep up with these things. We're not even valid 4.0 html, so we are certainly not valid xhtml.

Still, it would be nice if pages rendered the same, in the same browser, which evidently they aren't even doing.
- jim 7-30-2004 5:54 pm





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