>Oh well, at least the gist of what I said still holds true! ;-)
Actually, your understanding of a container is correct and <p>
fits that. Your confusion may be more related to the implementation
of containers in HTML.
The terminator is optional on all containers in situations where
the termination can be infered. There are many obvious cases where
unterminated containers will create bad results, like <a> and <hn>;
and some others where it's just plain bad practice, like <ol> and
<form>. But a browser shouldn't die because of it, and you can't go
to jail for it. (Although I have written my congressman about <blink>!)
I wouldn't make a big deal out of this, except that your statements,
if left uncorrected, could create some real misunderstandings about
containers in HTML.
If you still have questions about this, feel free to post them
as such. But do be careful about posting assertions and corrections
to other people's statements before being sure of your facts.
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