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		dundarious on Nov 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You Don't Need HTML `content-type: text/html` but first line is just `<!doctype UNICODE><meta charset="UTF-8"><plaintext>` then no more tags, even to close.

edent on Nov 17, 2022 [–]

It is impossible to close a <plaintext> element.

cedilla on Nov 17, 2022 | | [–]

I thought this would be another weird new tag, but on the contrary:

<plaintext> is deprecated since HTML 2

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pl...

dundarious on Nov 17, 2022 | | [–]

Absolutely, was just implying it was served as HTML but about as little as you can get, just a tiny preamble.

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