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Different browsers different DOMs

21st November 2002

Hixie has put together a fascinating article describing how the Mozilla, Opera 7 beta and IE6 DOMs deal with incorrectly nested HTML tags. Internet Explorer goes as far as creating a malformed tree just to represent badly formed HTML!

Posted 21st November 2002 at 11:06 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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