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Will the SE's allow multiple <body> tags

Propools

5:26 pm on Jun 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

Will the SE's allow multiple <body> tags in one page? I'm using DW to create pages for our revised site and when I do a page include, upload and then view source on the web, I see multiples of the <body> for each of the pages I include.

So, I question if the SE's (Specifically G & Y)will:
1. penalize the page
2. not index the page
3. drop the site entirely
4. Get flagged for some notorious 'flaming'

Now, we're a white hat company through and through, so I don't want to do something that's going to be viewed as 'wrong' or 'suspicious'.

Has anybody run into this or have FIRST HAND knowledge from an SE's point of view.

D_Blackwell

7:27 pm on Jun 13, 2007 (gmt 0)

I can't give first hand information so far as SE, but it is bad practice. ONE <body> element to a page. (A quick snip and test shows that it won't validate, at least not with the DTD that I use.)

document type does not allow element "body" here.

<edit> additional note >/edit>
Is there a body element in the include? Most likely there should not be.

[edited by: D_Blackwell at 7:29 pm (utc) on June 13, 2007]

Propools

8:26 pm on Jun 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

I've not ever thought about "not" putting body tags in the file. Let me play with that and see how it goes. Thanks.

JohnRoy

7:50 pm on Jun 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

I don't see any blackhat issue here but as D_blackwell said it won't validate - so you're not "a white hat company through and through"

ogletree

8:21 pm on Jun 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

Yes you can do that and rank. I would not recommend it since it is not valid.