Comments on: Do or Div! http://www.princeofswords.com/2006/02/27/do-or-div/ One sword keeps another in the sheath. - George Herbert Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:23:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: HeadGeek http://www.princeofswords.com/2006/02/27/do-or-div/#comment-33 HeadGeek Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:46:58 +0000 http://www.princeofswords.com/?p=71#comment-33 last try < /div > <!-- id="first" --> last try

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]]> By: HeadGeek http://www.princeofswords.com/2006/02/27/do-or-div/#comment-32 HeadGeek Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:46:17 +0000 http://www.princeofswords.com/?p=71#comment-32 Doh -it hid my html >/div< >!-- id="first" --< Doh -it hid my html

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]]> By: HeadGeek http://www.princeofswords.com/2006/02/27/do-or-div/#comment-31 HeadGeek Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:45:24 +0000 http://www.princeofswords.com/?p=71#comment-31 Althouth not a simple - you could just use an html comment to the same effect Althouth not a simple - you could just use an html comment to the same effect

]]> By: spoonix http://www.princeofswords.com/2006/02/27/do-or-div/#comment-30 spoonix Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:08:51 +0000 http://www.princeofswords.com/?p=71#comment-30 The spec just says you need a unique id element... so, like, you couldn't reuse "first" for another div. But there's nothing in there about not including it in closing tags. Try running a sample page through the w3c's validator and see what it whines about. :) It'd also be interesting to see if that if you use the above trick if the browser will honor the id in the close tag and will know to ignore any other unclosed div's in the content and keep them from jacking up the rest of the page. The spec just says you need a unique id element… so, like, you couldn’t reuse “first” for another div. But there’s nothing in there about not including it in closing tags.

Try running a sample page through the w3c’s validator and see what it whines about. :)

It’d also be interesting to see if that if you use the above trick if the browser will honor the id in the close tag and will know to ignore any other unclosed div’s in the content and keep them from jacking up the rest of the page.

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