HTML Footers and Outlook/Word 2003?

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Wed May 21 22:10:12 IST 2008 

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Julian Field wrote:
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|
| Paul Hutchings wrote:
|> Thanks, I'm afraid I'm not an HTML person so it was knocked up in an
|> HTML editor that obviously looked right but wasn't (weird how 5 editors
|> can knock out 5 different sets of HTML for something that looks so
|> simple!).
|>
|> I've passed it through the html parser and unless someone can give me a
|> reason not to use it, this is what it spits out:
|>
|> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
|> <html>
|> <head>
|> <meta name="generator" content=
|> "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 11 February 2007), see www.w3.org">
|> <title></title>
|> </head>
|> <body>
|> <hr>
|>
| That should be <hr />
|> <font face="tahoma,arial" size="2"><b>MIRA Ltd</b><br>
|>
| All those <br> tags should be <br />. I don't think this is a very good
| HTML tidier :-(
| It is spitting out incorrect HTML.

Closing tags are not required for HTML 4.0 transactional. But they are
acceptable with html 4.0 and required for all versions of xhtml. So if
you start coding things by hand it would be best to learn to close all tags.

Hugo.

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