On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 12:34 +1100, clancy_1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:39:31 -0800, mpeters@xxxxxxx ("Michael A. Peters") wrote: > > >clancy_1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:10:42 +0100, rene7705@xxxxxxxxx (Rene Veerman) wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:31 AM, <clancy_1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:21:00 -0800, dealtek@xxxxxxxxx (dealtek) wrote: > >>>> Opening tables, etc, wrongly generally messes the page up completely, but > >>>> forgetting to close them again often has no affect no visible effect at all -- until you > >>>> make some innocent change and everything goes haywire! > >>> whenever i write an opening tag, i immediately write the closing tag > >>> next, then cursor back to fill it in. > >> > >> Not so easy when you are using PHP to generate a complex layout! > >> > >> > > > >Use DOMDocument. > >Then you don't have to worry about closing the tags ;) > > Ohhh? The index page of the manual has 110 lines of totally meaningless entries, and the > introduction doesn't open. I haven't the faintest idea what it's all about, but I very > much doubt if it would mean anything to the original writer. > > I've never used DomDoument to create an HTML page, and I probably never will. I also don't have much of a problem with creating decent html code that validates either. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk