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Jonathan Wood

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Nov 18, 2009, 1:51:07 PM11/18/09
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Greetings,

I was looking at the following link:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:CRulWVVQFE8J:www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3Fterm%3Dasdf+asdf&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I was trying to find ways to display the header over a page as they have
done. However, looking at the HTML source, I see they use several <div> tags
that appear prior to the <html> tag.

Can anyone explain to me why there would be <div> tags outside of the <html>
area, and how this could work?

Thanks!

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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
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Christoph Schneegans

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Nov 18, 2009, 4:35:41 PM11/18/09
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Jonathan Wood wrote:

> http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:CRulWVVQFE8J:www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3Fterm%3Dasdf+asdf&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us


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> Can anyone explain to me why there would be <div> tags outside of
> the <html> area, and how this could work?

The code outside the "html" element was added by Google. This is
invalid, of course, but browsers don't care about validity very
much.

Google could also have inserted its code after the opening <html>
tag, but this would be more complex and error-prone.

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