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Do we still need forward slashes when closing void elements in HTML5?

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In HTML 5, the closing slash is optional on void elements such img (I am adding this because the currently accepted answer only says: “end tags must not be specified for void elements”, and does not address closing slashes in void elements). Citing from http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#start-tags (number 6): Then, if the element is one of the … Read more

How do I center align horizontal menu?

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From http://pmob.co.uk/pob/centred-float.htm: The premise is simple and basically just involves a widthless float wrapper that is floated to the left and then shifted off screen to the left width position:relative; left:-50%. Next the nested inner element is reversed and a relative position of +50% is applied. This has the effect of placing the element dead … Read more

display: inline-block extra margin [duplicate]

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White space affects inline elements. This should not come as a surprise. We see it every day with span, strong and other inline elements. Set the font size to zero to remove the extra margin. .container { font-size: 0px; letter-spacing: 0px; word-spacing: 0px; } .container > div { display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: … Read more

Are nested span tags OK in XHTML?

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Yes it will. You can help yourself by using the w3’s validator direct input option: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” lang=”en” xml:lang=”en”> <head> <title>Title</title> </head> <body> <p> <span>Test<span>Nest span</span></span> </p> </body> </html>

How to parse XML in Bash?

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This is really just an explaination of Yuzem’s answer, but I didn’t feel like this much editing should be done to someone else, and comments don’t allow formatting, so… rdom () { local IFS=\> ; read -d \< E C ;} Let’s call that “read_dom” instead of “rdom”, space it out a bit and use … Read more

Valid content-type for XML, HTML and XHTML documents

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HTML: text/html, full-stop. XHTML: application/xhtml+xml, or only if following HTML compatbility guidelines, text/html. See the W3 Media Types Note. XML: text/xml, application/xml (RFC 2376). There are also many other media types based around XML, for example application/rss+xml or image/svg+xml. It’s a safe bet that any unrecognised but registered ending in +xml is XML-based. See the … Read more

Is div inside list allowed? [duplicate]

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Yes it is valid according to xhtml1-strict.dtd. The following XHTML passes the validation: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”> <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=”en” lang=”en”> <head> <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ /> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <ul> <li><div>test</div></li> </ul> </body> </html>