Is div inside list allowed?

If you look at xhtml1-strict.dtd, you'll see 

<!ELEMENT li %Flow;>
<!ENTITY % Flow "(#PCDATA | %block; | form | %inline; | %misc;)*">
<!ENTITY % block
     "p | %heading; | div | %lists; | %blocktext; | fieldset | table">

Thus div, p etc. can be inside li (according to XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD from w3.org).


As an addendum: Before HTML 5 while a div inside a li is valid, a div inside a dl, dd, or dt is not!


If I recall correctly, a div inside a li used to be invalid.

@Flower @Superstringcheese Div should semantically define a section of a document, but it has already practically lost this role. Span should however contain text.


Yes it is valid according to xhtml1-strict.dtd. The following XHTML passes the validation:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
  <li><div>test</div></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>

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