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HTML 5 style self closing tags
Hi there,
is there a way (a plugin, a code hack, whatever) to have all the self-closing tag generated by Textpattern (i.e.: article images) display HTML 5 style? (like ‘>’ instead of ‘ />’).
My website is all HTML5-compliant, but old self-closing tags, though compatible, are not part of the standard.
Thanks for any advice!
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#2 2010-06-21 09:37:19
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Re: HTML 5 style self closing tags
I’m not yet too sure about tag closing in HTML5 but you could give rah_replace a go.
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Re: HTML 5 style self closing tags
uli wrote:
I’m not yet too sure about tag closing in HTML5
Self-closing in HTML5 is valid. They added self-closing to the specs so that moving to HTML5 could be easy as possible. Really, there is nothing wrong about using self-closing tags in HTML5. Actually imo it is pretty cool feature. If you wanted to start using the video canvas and such, as long as your markup is already strict valid, you can just change the doc type and you’re ready to use the canvases.
but you could give rah_replace a go.
Yep. Rah_replace can indeed do that :-) The slight problem with such solution is the performance, as the replacing happens on-fly.
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Re: HTML 5 style self closing tags
May be interesting to get an answer on html5 support in the feature request/development part of this forum, which the devs usually read. I too am creating a html5 site and whilst the self closing tags are not a major concern as they still validate, I’d like to see what plans (if any) are in place to support some of the newer tags and removing deprecated tags that Textpattern currently uses (such as acronym).
Of course html5 is still unratified by W3C and constantly in flux at the moment so maybe that will be their answer at this stage.
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Re: HTML 5 style self closing tags
html5 is still unratified by W3C and constantly in flux :-)
(but never rule anything out)
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Re: HTML 5 style self closing tags
Bloke wrote:
but never rule anything out
Cool :-) In these situations it’s good that TXP has the htmlshortcut library. Lot easier to change. I’m wondering if simple setting to TXP’s preferences could be possible which then toggles the closing slash on and off in the tags. But on other hand self-closing HTML5 valid, soooo.
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Re: HTML 5 style self closing tags
I think jmd_html is what you’re looking for. it converts xhtml style self closing tags to html. -BTW You can use html5 with xhtml syntax (xhtml5).-+just noticed Jukka already adressed this point.+
Last edited by JanDW (2010-06-21 22:28:31)
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Re: HTML 5 style self closing tags
I’m wondering if simple setting to TXP’s preferences could be possible which then toggles the closing slash on and off in the tags.
I was thinking the same, a toggle for closing tags on or off would be a great option.
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