Markdown Tutorial

Re:Markdown Tutorial by enriquto on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:27AM (#23219811)

HTML5 is not all that verbose. You can omit closing tags for many elements (for example, </p>, </li> and </td>). Many other tags are also implicitly opened, like <body> and the like. I actually prefer it to markdown for most cases.

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Re:Markdown Tutorial by antman on Monday May 18, 2020 @04:52AM (#23220014)

Is that a spec or it just happens?

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Re:Markdown Tutorial by enriquto on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:56AM (#23220419)

Part of the spec, and recommender by many people.

For some examples of modern html, see google's style guide for html, section 3.1.7 shows an example of a complete and correct document that may blow your mind. Also, the examples of tables and lists without closing elements:

https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html

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Re:Markdown Tutorial by duckmysick on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:36AM (#23222822)

It sounds good in theory, but in practice it adds a huge mental overhead.

> A p element's end tag may be omitted if the p element is immediately followed by an address, article, aside, blockquote, details, div, dl, fieldset, figcaption, figure, footer, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, header, hgroup, hr, main, menu, nav, ol, p, pre, section, table, or ul element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is an HTML element that is not an a, audio, del, ins, map, noscript, or video element, or an autonomous custom element.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#syntax-ta...

This is so complicated. In the end it's easier for me to close the tag instead of second guessing if I may skip it or may not.

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Re:Markdown Tutorial by enriquto on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:09AM (#23233934)

In practice you can always skip the closing p tag. The difference is inconsequential (it only matters for the whitespace).

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Re:Markdown Tutorial by Stratoscope on Monday May 18, 2020 @05:01AM (#23220074)

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/

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