Can anyone tell me why this doen't work in IE?

by **Ulrik Hvide** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:34 am

This might be a little off-topic, but I couldn't think of a better forum to get the answer I'm looking for.

I've been working on a danish blog (http://webr.dk) using html5 and for fun I decided to experiment with the markup. At first I used the standard html5 markup:

Code: Select all: <!doctype html><html><head><title>My poor website</title></head><body>This is my poor website</body></html>

Which obviously works fine, but than I came to think that why declare that the content is html twice (in the doctype + in the <html> tag). So I removed the <html> tag which looks like this http://webr.dk/html5-1.html and still does validate according to w3c.
Then I started to think about removing <head> and <body> tags, I realise this is bad practice, but I still wanted to give it a shot.

http://webr.dk/html5-2.html Here I removed the body tag, but the website still validates according to w3c. In the next test I removed the <head> tag too: http://webr.dk/html5-3.html which also validated according to W3C, thus making me question whether or not this is a bug?

For some reason every browser except MSIE can show the page even when all the 3 tags are removed, but why doesn't is work on IE?

Hope someone got the answers

-Ulrik Hvide

by **Ulrik Hvide** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:52 am

For those of you who like me are happy not to own a microsoft equipped computer, here are some screenshots:

without <html>: http://browsershots.org/screenshots/ec9abd3ee0de1dd2ad9d896121520854/

without <html><body>: http://browsershots.org/screenshots/6c53ca0a4269fa5e4b5894278d229439/

without <html><body><head>: http://browsershots.org/screenshots/e75631e892e0708916009246906221a7/

It seems like I was wrong, it does also work in MSIE, but why doesn't it work on webr.dk then?

webr without <html> and <body> (just as it is atm): http://browsershots.org/http://webr.dk/

by **zcorpan** » Sun Mar 28, 2010 11:03 pm

Those tags are optional in HTML. That's why it still validates.

The reason it is broken in IE is because when you remove the <body> tag, IE thinks that the (for IE unknown) <header> element should go into head instead of implying body.

by **Ulrik Hvide** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:43 am

zcorpan wrote:Those tags are optional in HTML. That's why it still validates.

The reason it is broken in IE is because when you remove the <body> tag, IE thinks that the (for IE unknown) <header> element should go into head instead of implying body.

One must hate IE I suppose...

Thanks for the help though.

Can anyone tell me why this doen't work in IE?

Can anyone tell me why this doen't work in IE?

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