OK, this last trick pushes the envelope a bit. It's not official HTML, and it might get you into trouble with some lesser-known browsers, so proceed with caution.
The fact is, if you don't close a few HTML tags (especially when using tables), most browsers won't care. Let's hone down the following code:
It turns out that if we remove most of the ending tags (</FONT>, </I>, </P>, and even </TD> and </TR>), the major browsers will display this table in exactly the same way:
Well, that about wraps it up. A lot of tricks, some obvious, others less so. The idea is to get us all thinking more about how we code so we can save a few bytes here and there, until all those bytes add up to a better experience for the users of our sites.
This list of tricks is certainly not complete. If you have your own tips for trimming down your HTML, email them to me at slmulder@earthlink.net and perhaps we'll add a Part 3 to this column.
