Walt Mankowski on Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:58:08 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] emacs html mode


On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:54:56AM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> The functions in emacs' html mode generally insert both open and close
> tags. An exception is html-paragraph (C-c RET), which only inserts <p>
> (no close tag).
> 
> Is there some reason emacs doesn't insert close paragraph tags? I
> thought html required them and browsers just ignored their absence.

Closing p tags are optional according to the HTML 4.01 spec.  See
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.3.1 for more
information.

Walt

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