From kfm-devel  Tue Nov 30 09:09:27 1999
From: Lars Knoll <knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:09:27 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: khtml and <pre>
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll@mpi-hd.mpg.de> writes:
> 
> > 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'll forward this to the Apache people, after checking it isn't
> already fixed in a current version.
> 
> (All auto-generated directory listings by Apache I've seen render very
> ugly in konqy, ie http://www.pdc.kth.se/~jas/ds/)

Just had a look at it. The problem is actually the <hr> tag inside <pre>. But
the same thing I said above also applies to <hr>. It is a block level element
and forbidden inside <pre>.

Cheers,
Lars