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Posted on 2005-02-03 13:08:17-08 by barbie

Tag case

what is the difference between <p> and <P> ?

Except that the latter fails with text format is incorrect.

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Posted on 2005-02-03 16:09:13-08 by bricas in response to 24

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The later fails to validate against the XHTML doctype.

See this w3c document for more info: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.2

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Posted on 2005-02-03 21:50:40-08 by barbie in response to 25

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That is regarding the presentation of XHTML as the rendered page, not what a user will type into a text field. They are two different things. Strict typing for user input is just bad UI. Below the text input box, it states that the only accepted HTML (that's HTML *NOT* XHTML) are bold, italic, paragraph and break, thus the uppercase versions should also be valid. As it happens the lowercase versions are broken as well at the moment as I can't even enter those tags without a text format error!

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Posted on 2005-02-04 22:53:23-08 by szabgab in response to 28

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I think I changed this now.

You can now use either lower case or upper case letters in the markup, the site will recognize both but will display them lower case

barbie, please send me an example of what can't you enter? Unless you are also talking about <p> without a closing tag which is currently rejected on purpose. I am still thinking about a way to accept them and turn them to real XHTML style paragraph endings.

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Posted on 2005-02-05 08:39:49-08 by barbie in response to 32

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Reading your other post I think the problem was having bold tags inside a paragraph tag. I had included all the closing tags and all were lower case, so it should have worked. But if you've already spotted the problem that's fine.

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