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HTML

Posted by nicholas maddren
nicholas maddren
12,793 Points

XHTML Question

My new work placement uses XHTML, one question I do have...

Why do img tags need to be surrounded by p, h1, h2 tags ect?

2 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 Points

As far as I'm aware, they don;t have to be surrounded to be valid code, but it can be useful to do some, when selecting your elements with CSS. :)

Jafar Ruyan
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Jafar Ruyan
Courses Plus Student 15,303 Points
Jafar Ruyan
Jafar Ruyan
Courses Plus Student 15,303 Points

It may be because img is a in-line element and not a block element. Although it is an in-line block element. It doesn't really matter in html; but xhtml has it's own bizarre oddities :P

As far as I remember, all in-line elements must be in block elements for valid xhtml.