Stopping bad HTML propagation ?

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1997

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texte = This is a general HTML question, but this list is probably one of the places where the answer would be of most interest.Our WebCat/Merchant site is coming along just fine. As part of the site we will be having distributed maintenance of catalog entries. The idea is quite close to the classifieds example, but it goes a few steps further.We want to allow the catalog maintainers to use HTML _within_ their entries so that they can use lists, figures etc at their discretion. This brings up the problem of how to stop bad HTML from propagating down the page.Just as an example, assume that one of the maintainers puts in an

but forgets to put in the closing

tag. Unless we do something about it, the rest of the [founditems] entries on the page would end up as

.As Grant has repeatedly pointed out; HTML stinks :-) but is there a reset HTML tag which will cancel all other tags from that point on until they are re-asserted ?I guess the alternative would be to rattle off all the tags between catalog entries, but that sure seems crude.In the near future we'll have few enough maintainers so it probably won't be a problem, but I wouldn't count on that for the future.Any suggestions or ideas ?Thanks,-Sven_ Sven U. Grenander BeeHive Technologies, Inc. http://www.bzzzzzz.com - with a WebCam in Pasadena, California_ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Stopping bad HTML propagation ? (Ed Trefzger 1997)

Re: Stopping bad HTML propagation ? (Sven U. Grenander 1997)

Re: Stopping bad HTML propagation ? (Grant Hulbert 1997)

Stopping bad HTML propagation ? (Sven U. Grenander 1997)

Re: Stopping bad HTML propagation ? (Publisher1 1997)

This is a general HTML question, but this list is probably one of the places where the answer would be of most interest.Our WebCat/Merchant site is coming along just fine. As part of the site we will be having distributed maintenance of catalog entries. The idea is quite close to the classifieds example, but it goes a few steps further.We want to allow the catalog maintainers to use HTML _within_ their entries so that they can use lists, figures etc at their discretion. This brings up the problem of how to stop bad HTML from propagating down the page.Just as an example, assume that one of the maintainers puts in an

but forgets to put in the closing

tag. Unless we do something about it, the rest of the [founditems] entries on the page would end up as

.As Grant has repeatedly pointed out; HTML stinks :-) but is there a reset HTML tag which will cancel all other tags from that point on until they are re-asserted ?I guess the alternative would be to rattle off all the tags between catalog entries, but that sure seems crude.In the near future we'll have few enough maintainers so it probably won't be a problem, but I wouldn't count on that for the future.Any suggestions or ideas ?Thanks,-Sven_ Sven U. Grenander BeeHive Technologies, Inc. http://www.bzzzzzz.com - with a WebCam in Pasadena, California_ Sven U. Grenander

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Stopping bad HTML propagation ?

1997

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