[whatwg] Problem in the Section "4 Elements of HTML => 4.4 Sections => 4.4.2 The Section element

Tim Leverett zzzzbov at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 11:04:16 PDT 2012


I assume you're referring to tags written as:

<Html
 ><Head
   ><Title


The reason for this is to prevent undesired whitespace in markup, while
preserving indentation. Whitespace in HTML is preserved between tags, but
it is not preserved within.
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Kevin Deamandel <kdeamndl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Contributors.
>
> I recently started checking the specs and i can't help but notice the
> weird formation of the tags in this section
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dfnReturnLink-10
>
> can anybody tell me if this is known/on purpous
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin Deamandel
>



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