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<element/> tags

Postby PMB9 » Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:42 pm

Hello,

I want to have <element/> tags in HTML5 or later. Always if I want to use e.g. <progess value="4" max="20"/> it breaks the layout of my page. I think this would bring an interesting feature, known from XML. I know that this would be incompatible to previous html versions, but at some point in time you have to break compatibility in order to provide better comfort.
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Re: <element/> tags

Postby zcorpan » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:11 pm

PMB9 wrote:Hallo,

I want to have <element/> tags in HTML5 or later. Always if I want to use e.g. <progess value="4" max="20"/> it breaks the layout of my page. I think this would bring an interesting feature, known from XML. I know that this would be incompatible to previous html versions,
Indeed.

PMB9 wrote:but at some point in time you have to break compatibility in order to provide better comfort.

Nope. :)
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Re: <element/> tags

Postby PMB9 » Wed Aug 31, 2011 3:45 pm

At least it currently works with some tags such as <input>.
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Re: <element/> tags

Postby JAB Creations » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:12 pm

Those are called elements, a tag is only correctly referenced as the "end tag of an element" or the "beginning tag of an element". An example of correct reference... "In XHTML does an input element have an ending tag?" In the vast overwhelming majority of cases it's correct to reference an element as an element.
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Re: <element/> tags

Postby zcorpan » Wed Aug 31, 2011 6:54 pm

AFAICT this thread is discussing tags, not elements.
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