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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#optional-tags Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#optional-tags Referrer: Comment: <b><p></p></b> cannot have p end tag ommitted though this section permits it Posted from: 86.30.234.99 by geoffers@gmail.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0
It's non-conforming already because <b><p> is non-conforming. Whether or not you can omit the </p> after that is academic.