[geeks] Newspaper Web Sites

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:08:39 -0400 (EDT)
der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

> > IE does some of the most stupid things I've ever seen.
> 
> > One of the most annoying is that for some markup, if you leave a
> > space after the end tag, it puts that space in the output.
> 
> > To avoid it, you have to do stupid crap like this:
> 
> > 	<SOMETAG>
> > 		blah blah blah blah
> > 	</SOMETAG><NEWTAG>
> > 		blah blah blah
> > 	</NEWTAG>
> 
> > If you don't butt the end/start tags together, IE outputs spaces
> > there.
> 
> This is a bug?  Seems to me that's how it should work.  You have
> whitespace between <SOMETAG> and blah, you get a space there.  You have
> whitespace between </SOMETAG> and <NEWTAG>, you get a space *there*.

Yes, it is a bug when it occurs between content tags.

The W3C says so, and only one browser does this: IE.



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