Every now and then, while websurfing, you will encounter a page with invalid HTML coding that will cause the following message: BAD HTML - Use Trace To Diagnose'. The good news is that this CAN be fixed. The bad news is that the webmaster of the site giving you problems is the one who has to be persuaded to fix it. In most cases where it is present, invalid HTML may just cause things to be displayed a little differently than the author of the page intended. With forms, however, tags in the wrong place can break the form. Some other browsers, including the two most popular, Netscape and Internet Explorer, are sloppy in their handling of invalid HTML and can work with forms that have invalidly-nested tags are present in a form even though that is in violation of the HTML specifications. It encourages a lot of sloppy HTML authors or sloppy programmers of HTML-authoring tools. The lynx browser, however, is very critical of invalid HTML. The most frequent cause of the "Bad HTML" messages is a set of improperly-nested tags. Correct nesting: (non-working example) Some text in bold.
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