Unbalanced tags

Certain unbalanced tags like <table><tr><td> without the corresponding end tags will slightly throw off the layout on The Monastery Gates. But it seems possible that such things could happen.

Suppose someone did that:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td>
            whatever.....
<readmore>
            more whatever.....
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

</readmore>
[download]

enclosing part or all of the posting within an html table for whatever reasons. It would look fine on Preview... until the posting got frontpaged. It's kind of hard to mentally imagine how the tags would behave.

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Re: Unbalanced tags (plan) by tye (Sage) on Jul 07, 2003 at 19:15 UTC
Perhaps you'd like to read the footnotes on Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. It is hoped that tag balancing will be enforced in the future. There are some solutions I'd like to try out (most Perl solutions are way too slow, I've tested some that are supposed to be among the faster ones). See also Re: Readmore in source (reasons) for how preview/READMORE should be improved at some point in the distant future. - tye	[reply]
Re: Unbalanced tags by chunlou (Curate) on Jul 07, 2003 at 15:23 UTC
Ironic. This on individual viewing `<table> <tr> <td> whatever..... <readmore> more whatever..... </td> </tr> </table> </readmore>` [download] became this on listing (when readmore tag interpreted) `<table> <tr> <td> whatever..... <br /><a HREF="/index.pl?node_id=271979">Read more...</a><br />` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]