Feature Proposals » For paragraphs generate <p></p> instead of <p/>

Motivation

In most cases, <p/> generated by Render.pm for a blank line is recognized as <p> by browsers because the MIME type of TWiki pages is text/html rather than text/xml. As such, browsers see p tags not closed explicitly. This messes up the DOM tree.

This was discussed on DoNotUseSelfclosingPTag for %TWISTY{...}%. For TWISTY this is not necessary, but there are other cases where a better and predictable DOM tree is desirable or necessary.

Description and Documentation

Having Render.pm put <p></p> instead of <p/>.

This makes the DOM tree of a TWiki page better and more predictable.

This may have unexpected consequences. So to be on the safer side, <p/> is put by default. Only if {OpenAndClosePTags} is true, <p></p> is put in place of <p/>.

Examples

Impact

Implementation

-- Contributors: Hideyo Imazu - 2013-07-04

Discussion

Reflected discussion in JerusalemReleaseMeeting2013x07x04.

-- Hideyo Imazu - 2013-07-04

if many tests show that there are no unexpected consequences we could set the default to open & close tags.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2013-07-05