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For as long as I've been validating web pages, I never realized that the closing </head> tag was optional in HTML. I feel as if I've missed the boat at times.
While I'm all for trimming excess code, I just cannot for the life of me strip out closing tags because they are optional in HTML. I'd be concerned that something, somewhere would not parse the document correctly if I removed the closing </head> element.
Are my concerns unfounded?
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Posted 04 February 2008 - 10:50 PM
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I find it hard to believe that not closing your head tag is XHTML compliant.
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Posted 05 February 2008 - 10:00 AM
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As people move towards using XHTML instead of HTML, the closing tags will stop being optional.
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Posted 05 February 2008 - 01:03 PM
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I did not know this either and it seems against standards.
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Posted 08 February 2008 - 01:15 PM
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why would they put it in as opptional in the first place? Would they do that in order to entice people to use it? I mean with out closing tagss it would "seem" alot easier.
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Posted 13 February 2008 - 10:37 AM
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Well I don't know what you mean by optional, it's either that the webpage will be still displayed correctly, or it is with the standards....
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Posted 25 February 2008 - 06:32 AM
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If you want valid markup, you should close the tags.
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Posted 26 February 2008 - 09:36 PM
xXHalfSliceXx
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Duplicate post.....
http://forum.codecal...-tags-html.html
Looks like Promotion of Rothzael's signature,
Which looks like a free service.
http://forum.codecal...-tags-html.html
Looks like Promotion of Rothzael's signature,
Which looks like a free service.
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Posted 26 February 2008 - 10:15 PM
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xXHalfSliceXx said:
Duplicate post.....
http://forum.codecal...-tags-html.html
Looks like Promotion of Rothzael's signature,
Which looks like a free service.
http://forum.codecal...-tags-html.html
Looks like Promotion of Rothzael's signature,
Which looks like a free service.
Um, sorry. I posted in that thread, then realised that the thread was a duplicate and everyone was actually posting in this one.
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Posted 13 March 2008 - 10:35 AM
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wow I didn't know that I was always taught to close head tag.
I thought that it was always required since the beginning of HTML.
I thought that it was always required since the beginning of HTML.
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Posted 22 March 2008 - 07:44 AM
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It Is required, if you really want a 100% valid page you should close each and every opened tag
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Posted 05 May 2008 - 04:46 PM
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I'm pretty sure the <head> tag definitely needs closing. I'm pretty certain that the initial <html> isn't needed either, or if it is, </html> definitely isn't.
