Why is the following code valid when I am using a <div>
inside a <li>
?
<ul>
<li class="aschild">
<div class="nav">Test</div>
</li>
</ul>
Why is the following code valid when I am using a <div>
inside a <li>
?
<ul>
<li class="aschild">
<div class="nav">Test</div>
</li>
</ul>
Yes you can use a div inside a li and it will validate.
<!ELEMENT li %Flow;>
<!ENTITY % Flow "(#PCDATA | %block; | form | %inline; | %misc;)*">
<!ENTITY % block "p | %heading; | div | %lists; | %blocktext; | fieldset | table">
Inside a <li>
you can have anything you could naturally put inside a <div>
. They are no different in this sense.
It should be valid in HTML4, XHTML and HTML5 as well.
This is NOT valid though (so the sources you found about "no divs in lists" could refer to this situation):
<ul>
<li></li>
<div></div>
<li></li>
</ul>
So: Lists (ul
, ol
) can only have li
s as their children. But li
s can have anything as their children.
Because <li>
is a block element, not an inline element like <span>
or <a>
.
An <li>
is a block element, and will work perfectly fine with other block elements inside.
Yes, you can. As much as you want.