I have been playin with dynamic changes to innerHTML content and have noticed some strange behaviour with tables nested inside other elements.
For example form p /pp table /table /p /form was not seeing the table as innerHTML of the second p but instead listed the table as a sibling of that p tag rather than a child.
I figure this is a well known behaviour.
What is the gap in my knowlegde?
TIA
You can't put a <table>
inside a <p>
. From the HTML4 specification :
<!ELEMENT P - O (%inline;)* -- paragraph -->
[...]
It cannot contain block-level elements (including P itself).
And then if you look at what the %inline;
elements are , you won't find <table>
in the list.
And for HTML5, <p>
can contain phrasing content :
Permitted contents
Phrasing content
And phrasing content is character data and phrasing elements , phrasing elements are:
a or em or strong or small ... meter
There's no <table>
in that list.
So you're trying to insert invalid HTML and the browser is changing <p><table></table></p>
into <p></p><table></table>
(ie moving the table child up to a sibling) in order to get valid HTML.
If you give the browser invalid HTML, the browser will guess what you really mean and go with its guess.
This is because both <p>
and <table>
are block-level elements.
Use a container element for your table, like a <div>
.
Good luck! :)
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