Author: david.sledge
Description:
If an empty <p/> element is used in wiki markup, it's parsed as &lt;p/&gt; the resulting HTML, instead of an HTML paragraph element.
Version: 1.10.x
Severity: minor
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ayg wrote:
Note that browser support for self-closing tags is, as far as I know, shabby, so it's probably best to translate it to <p></p>.
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The paragraph element is a container, so a self-closing tag would probably make little sense in this case. The <br /> tag would be more appropriate, or correctly using the paragraph tag as a <p>container</p>, or using the wiki double-spacing syntax (which is parsed as <p> tags).
It might be better to discourage the use of bad markup, rather than encourage it by hacking it into working.
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Not sure when, but this is no longer the case.
The wikitext
Empty paragraph tag below: <p /> Empty paragraph tag above:
at https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=User:DannyS712&oldid=396630 created the html output:
<p>Empty paragraph tag below: </p> <p class="mw-empty-elt"></p> <p>Empty paragraph tag above: </p>
as well as adding the category for Pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags