[whatwg] "nobr" is not an active formatting element

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> In current browsers <nobr> is different is treated differently from 
> other elements.
> 
>  <nobr>1<nobr>2</nobr>3
> 
> gives:
> 
>  E: nobr
>    T: 1
>  E: nobr
>    T: 2
>  T: 3
> 
>  <nobr>1<div>2</nobr>3</div>
> 
> gives:
> 
>  E: nobr
>    T: 1
>    E: div
>      T: 2
>  T: 3
> 
> This is quite different from "b", "strong", etc. and it probably has to 
> be this way too because of site compat.

I've tried to make <nobr> more compatible with IE (basically it implies a 
</nobr> before itself). I'd be extremely interested in implementation 
experience for this.

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