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jesse2
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago
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Internet Explorer outerHTML and innerHTML missing closing tags on table objects <th> and <td>

I am trying to convert HTML tables to XML, but when performing the conversion on a Table object in IE, I get an error about tags not matching. The function I'm running is: while True: if (...
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    jesse2
    6 years ago

    We managed to find a solution. 

     
    The tags that IE wasn't returning (</td> and </th>) are considered optional tags in HTML5. The utility we used for building our web application was configured to automatically strip optional HTML tags to "minify" the code for performance reasons. So while our source code included those tags, it was being stripped during our build process. We changed our build process to not strip the tags anymore and it's been working since.
     
    Thank you for the help, it's greatly appreciated.
jesse2's avatar
jesse2
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

We managed to find a solution. 

 
The tags that IE wasn't returning (</td> and </th>) are considered optional tags in HTML5. The utility we used for building our web application was configured to automatically strip optional HTML tags to "minify" the code for performance reasons. So while our source code included those tags, it was being stripped during our build process. We changed our build process to not strip the tags anymore and it's been working since.
 
Thank you for the help, it's greatly appreciated.
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    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    6 years ago

    THAT's an interesting piece to know... Thanks for sharing.  We're currently not coding HTML5 applications but, when and if we do, I'll store this bit for later.