RESOLVED INVALID31156
close tag of empty link element reported as error 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31156
Summary close tag of empty link element reported as error
leeze
Reported 2009-11-05 01:42:49 PST
In an XHTML file a link element inside of the head element produces an error if closed with a closing tag: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="an_url_to_a_css_file"></link> gives: Unmatched </link> encountered. Ignoring tag. Using: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="an_url_to_a_css_file" /> is recognized as valid as should the former example. The doctype I used was: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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Mark Rowe (bdash)
Comment 1 2009-11-05 02:07:36 PST
Can you please attach a test case that demonstrates what you’re seeing?
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 2 2009-11-05 10:14:32 PST
I'm pretty sure that your file is not XHTML in fact. Anything served with text/html Content-Type is handled as plain HTML by all browsers, regardless of DOCTYPEs or other magic incantations inside. And LINK is not supposed to be closed in plain HTML.
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