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Re: Accessible P Tag Usage

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 5, 2019 5:27AM

On 03/04/2019 02:37, Duff Johnson wrote:
[...]
> Here's a snippet of HTML in which we have a "floppy" <div>:
>
> <p>…and the bank account number is 123 456 789"<p>
> <div>223</div>
>
> What's the relationship between the <p> and the <div>? We don't know.
>
> If it were unambiguously tagged for semantics, it would either be:
>
> <p>…and the bank account number is 123 456 789"<p>
> <p>223</p>
>
> or...
>
> <p>…and the bank account number is 123 456 789 223<p>
>
> These would have very different meanings, and serialization doesn't solve the problem.

It can't be the second one, as the first paragraph is closed already
(i'm assuming your code sample meant to have </p> and not <p> at the end
of that line.

Anyway, I'd still say: for heaven's sake, there's so much more important
stuff that does really cause an actual problem to users. Can we stop
wasting time on splitting hairs about this?

P
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