How is this possible????

Ashu2912 · July 26th, 2011, 10:29 AM

I am an HTML beginner. This is code I have typed, just to check what the output is, and surprisingly even though I have closed the <html> tag with the </html> tag before the <body>, the <body> is still being executed. How is this possible???? Can anyone offer some explanation??? Thanks.

Code:

<html>
</html>
<body bgcolor = "RED" text = "WHITE">
HI!!!!!
</body>

Imar · July 26th, 2011, 06:25 PM

Hi there,

HTML is not a strict, compiled language. Even with errors in the file, the browser will try to do its best and figure out what you tried to accomplish. Although this may sound useful, it's actually quite problematic as it's harder to find issues like these. Even worse, different browsers are likely to respond differently to errors like these. Therefore, it's always a good idea to let a tool (such as the one from the W3C site) validate your HTML.

Cheers,

Imar