Not to worry, a user-agent will usually add closing tags as needed, except where it’s ambiguous. Most likely the error would not have proceeded past the end of the current block-level element.
Of course, that’s assuming those bbcode-style tags are being rendered straight into html...
[missing the point]
That was five words.
[/missing the point]
I like the implication that if you’d missed off the second set of tags, everything you wrote from now on on LW would be irrelevant.
Whoops, I think you forgot your closing ta-… Ah! I get it now. I should’ve closed that tag years ago.
That’s not particularly well-formed, is it now?
I’m very strongly tempted to respond with a “Yo mama” joke here.
Not to worry, a user-agent will usually add closing tags as needed, except where it’s ambiguous. Most likely the error would not have proceeded past the end of the current block-level element.
Of course, that’s assuming those bbcode-style tags are being rendered straight into html...