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by cryptoz 612 days ago
Isn't doctype still required by the spec in HTML5 in order to be "proper"? Perhaps I'm mistaken but I thought I remembered that it's technically 'required'.
3 comments
wild_egg 612 days ago
The only elements that are absolutely required are doctype and a non-empty title. Most minimal valid HTML doc:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <title>Foo</title>
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sureIy 611 days ago
Correct.

Fun fact: you do not need to close most tags in a valid HTML5 document.

This is valid:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <title>Foo</title>
    <p>paragraph
    <p>second
    <ul>
        <li>item
    </ul>
    <table>
        <tr><td>hi!
    </table>
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wild_egg 611 days ago
Indeed. People writing HTML5 as if it's XHTML is an old pet peeve of mine
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sureIy 611 days ago
It is, but I'd argue that people wouldn't even notice that the document is in quirks mode.

I think you'd really only want a TITLE tag so that it appears as a tab name. Anything else is really optional for people and you'd only really need BR, A, and IMG

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edflsafoiewq 612 days ago
It enables quirks mode when missing.
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