hello and can someone please help?

katknott · 10-16-2022, 12:24 PM

I am using Calibre for epub and getting an html error im unfamiliar with how to fix. it is for bare text. There are three all the same as this line: <p class="calibre1"> with text following this tag

enuddleyarbl · 10-16-2022, 03:03 PM

Bare text is text that's outside tags. Can you copy/paste the actual error message and the html around where it's saying the problem is?

Turtle91 · 10-16-2022, 04:11 PM

Also, with ePub, you need an opening AND closing tag.

<p class="calibre">Some text.</p>

It can throw an error if it doesn’t find the closing tag.

That can catch people that have done web design because it’s not required in html, but it is in xhtml.

Quoth · 10-17-2022, 05:21 AM

I've never seen working HTML without closing tags other than standalone tags such as <br>, which is usually <br/>

It doesn't just throw an error. The rest of the file can be affected.

bookman156 · 10-17-2022, 09:39 AM

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I've never seen working HTML without closing tags other than standalone tags such as <br>, which is usually <br/>

It doesn't just throw an error. The rest of the file can be affected.

Actually there is such a thing a tag omission:

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Paragraphs are block-level elements, and notably will automatically close if another block-level element is parsed before the closing </p> tag. See "Tag omission" below.

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Tag omission:

The start tag is required. The end tag may be omitted if the <p> element is immediately followed by an <address>, <article>, <aside>, <blockquote>, <div>, <dl>, <fieldset>, <footer>, <form>, <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>, <header>, <hr>, <menu>, <nav>, <ol>, <pre>, <section>, <table>, <ul> or another <p> element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an <a> element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...HTML/Element/p

I only noticed it when a page of mine validated with a missing closing p tag.

(Obviously this won't work in xhtml in epubs, where even void elements like hr and br have to be closed with a trailing slash: <hr />, <br />.)

KevinH · 10-17-2022, 10:25 AM

If using Sigil, run Mend. Sigil's gumbo parser will parse according to html (as well as xhtml rules) and serialize to xhtml. Since calibre has a parser originally based on gumbo too, it should do the same.

Quoth · 10-17-2022, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by bookman156

Actually there is such a thing a tag omission

It may be "legal" but it's sloppy even for simple HTML. I'd flag it as an error if I wrote an HTML validator because it usually is a mistake!

KevinH · 10-17-2022, 03:59 PM

There are actually lots of legal html omissions of ending tags. In fact any time an ending tag can be inferred from other starting or ending tags (such as inferring an ending p tag by seeing another opening p tag) it is legal to omit it. See the whatwg rules if interested.

A real html parser involves lots of special rules.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipa...plied-end-tags

10-16-2022, 12:24 PM	#1
katknott Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2021 Device: callibre	hello and can someone please help? I am using Calibre for epub and getting an html error im unfamiliar with how to fix. it is for bare text. There are three all the same as this line: <p class="calibre1"> with text following this tag

10-17-2022, 03:59 PM	#8
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5703586 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	There are actually lots of legal html omissions of ending tags. In fact any time an ending tag can be inferred from other starting or ending tags (such as inferring an ending p tag by seeing another opening p tag) it is legal to omit it. See the whatwg rules if interested. A real html parser involves lots of special rules. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipa...plied-end-tags Last edited by KevinH; 10-17-2022 at 04:42 PM.

10-16-2022, 03:03 PM	#2
enuddleyarbl Guru Posts: 769 Karma: 1537886 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kobo Forma	Bare text is text that's outside tags. Can you copy/paste the actual error message and the html around where it's saying the problem is?

10-16-2022, 04:11 PM	#3
Turtle91 A Hairy Wizard Posts: 3,312 Karma: 20171571 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Charleston, SC today Device: iPhone 15/11/X/6/iPad 1,2,Air & Air Pro/Surface Pro/Kindle PW & Fire	Also, with ePub, you need an opening AND closing tag. <p class="calibre">Some text.</p> It can throw an error if it doesn’t find the closing tag. That can catch people that have done web design because it’s not required in html, but it is in xhtml.

10-17-2022, 05:21 AM	#4
Quoth Still reading Posts: 13,705 Karma: 103837201 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	I've never seen working HTML without closing tags other than standalone tags such as <br>, which is usually <br/> It doesn't just throw an error. The rest of the file can be affected.

10-17-2022, 10:25 AM	#6
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5703586 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	If using Sigil, run Mend. Sigil's gumbo parser will parse according to html (as well as xhtml rules) and serialize to xhtml. Since calibre has a parser originally based on gumbo too, it should do the same.