Description
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#parsing-main-inbody
A start tag whose tag name is one of: "menuitem", "param", "source", "track"
Insert an HTML element for the token. Immediately pop the current node off the stack of open elements.Acknowledge the token's self-closing flag, if it is set.
Original email:
As per specification [1][2],
<menuitem>
should not have end tag, but few
websites uses<menuitem>Some markup</menuitem>
which resulted in broken
sites[3][4].
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Nov/0143.html
When I researched this last year I concluded
Based on this, it seems possible to keep it as a void element and only use
the label attribute.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Dec/0028.html
Now @tabatkins reported https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/HealthKit/Reference/HealthKit_Constants/index.html#//apple_ref/c/econst/HKBodyTemperatureSensorLocationRectum as being broken with void menuitem
parsing.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2015Oct/0006.html
Proposed fix:
- Make the end tag optional and have
<menuitem>
,<menu>
and<hr>
generate implied</menuitem>
end tags. (Maybe other tags like<li>
and<p>
can also imply</menuitem>
.) The label attribute be honored if specified, otherwise use the textContent with leading and trailing whitespace trimmed.This would allow either syntax unless I'm missing something.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2014Nov/0145.html