Re: Validates as HTML5 despite no <body> tag

Steve Faulkner <[email protected]> Tue, 5 May 2015 18:09:07 +0100

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The body element is not required in HTML5 under certain circumstances
refer to Tag omission in text/html:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-body-element

note if you look at the DOM you will find the browser has added a body
element even though absent in the source code

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Regards

SteveF
HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/>

On 5 May 2015 at 17:59, Richard J. Hodgkiss <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Dear Sir,
>
> While trying to convert a web page to HTML5, I accidentally
> deleted the <body> tag:
> http://www.succulent-plant.com/families/dicotyledons2.html
>
> However, the validator repeatedly passes the page as correct HTML5.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Hodgkiss
>
>
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