HTML and ShortTags: Its valid but doesn’t work, or its invalid but it works
Thursday, October 25th, 2007I discovered something interesting the other day. There are some HTML syntaxes that are surprising, but most browsers don’t support them anyway…
Specifically, <p<a href="/">Some Text</> some other text is technically the same as <p><a href="/">Some Text</a> some other text. Unfortunately, most browsers don’t properly support SGML short-tags, so the outcome is likely different than the spec says it should be.