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« on: Feb 27, 2008, 11:11:47 am »
For as long as I've been validating web pages, I never realized that the closing </head> tag was optional in HTML. I feel as if I've missed the boat at times.

While I'm all for trimming excess code, I just cannot for the life of me strip out closing tags because they are optional in HTML. I'd be concerned that something, somewhere would not parse the document correctly if I removed the closing </head> element.

Are my concerns unfounded?
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« Reply #1 on: Feb 27, 2008, 11:32:47 am »
I've just validated an XHTML document without </head> and it is not passing validation. So I guess you are wrong about that. Closing the <head> tag is not optional Smiley
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« Reply #2 on: Feb 27, 2008, 02:15:12 pm »
I guess this browser called IE doesn't care about many tags Cheesy
the only optional closing tag I know is </option> Smiley
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