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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: khtml and <pre>
From:       Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       1999-11-29 23:41:08
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On 29 Nov 1999, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> khtml seem to render the following
> 
> <pre><h1>foo</h1>
> <a href="foo">bar</a>
> <a href="bar">foo</a>
> </pre>
> 
> as (on one line)
> 
> foo bar foo
> 
> Shouldn't <pre> make \n mean literal \n's?
> 
> It makes lots of automated directory listings look ugly.

Read the HTML4 specs. The content of <pre> is only allowed to be of type
inline. <h1> is a block level element. So this is illegal html, and khtml
will assume and </pre> pefore the <h1>. To get it the way you want it to
look, use

<h1>foo</h1>
<pre>
<a href="foo">bar</a>
<a href="bar">foo</a>
</pre>

I wont fix this, as it violates html standards, and there's no for us to
both tolerate this construct and make a standards compliant browser.

We already have enough workarounds for broken html in our code.

Cheers,
Lars


> 
> TIA
> 
> 

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