div inside a p

[Jeff Thies]

I have this in IE5 windows:

<p style="color: red">
<div>This is not red</div>
and this is red
</p>

Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?

Jeff

[David Dorward]

Re: div inside a p

Jeff Thies wrote:
[color=blue]
> Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?[/color]

http://validator.w3.org/ is your friend.

But - yes. Paragraphs can only hold inline content.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

[Matthias Gutfeldt]

Re: div inside a p

Jeff Thies wrote:[color=blue]
> I have this in IE5 windows:
>
> <p style="color: red">
> <div>This is not red</div>
> and this is red
> </p>
>
> Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?[/color]

Never - well, never if you're using W3C HTML. There might be other HTML
versions that allow it :-).


Matthias

[Thomas Scholz]

Re: div inside a p

David Dorward gestand:
[color=blue]
> Jeff Thies wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?[/color]
>
> But - yes. Paragraphs can only hold inline content.[/color]

<p><object><div >Hello World!</div></object></p>

:-)

Thomas

[Thomas Scholz]

Re: div inside a p

David Dorward gestand:
[color=blue]
> Jeff Thies wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Why is that? Are divs never allowed inside paragraphs?[/color]
>
> But - yes. Paragraphs can only hold inline content.[/color]

<p><object><div >Hello World!</div></object></p>

:-)

Thomas

[David Dorward]

Re: div inside a p

Jeff Thies wrote:
[color=blue]
> Thanks, I stumbled across this at the W3C just now:
>
> <FORM action="http://somesite.com/prog/adduser" method="post">
> <P>
> First name: <INPUT type="text" name="firstname "><BR>[/color]
....[color=blue]
> </P>
> </FORM>
>
> Which oddly enough is almost exactly what I was trying to do. But
> without the zig zag alignment. Looks like I'll have to do this with divs
> instead.[/color]

Probably better with <label>, <fieldset>, <legend> and some CSS. Have a look
at the contact form on my site (see sig) for an example.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

[David Dorward]

Re: div inside a p

Jeff Thies wrote:
[color=blue]
> Thanks, I stumbled across this at the W3C just now:
>
> <FORM action="http://somesite.com/prog/adduser" method="post">
> <P>
> First name: <INPUT type="text" name="firstname "><BR>[/color]
....[color=blue]
> </P>
> </FORM>
>
> Which oddly enough is almost exactly what I was trying to do. But
> without the zig zag alignment. Looks like I'll have to do this with divs
> instead.[/color]

Probably better with <label>, <fieldset>, <legend> and some CSS. Have a look
at the contact form on my site (see sig) for an example.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/