Exercise 1: Three "Self-Closing" Divs in a Row — Possible Solution ==================================================================== THE TEST ------------------------------ tokenize("
Hi
") RESULT ------------------------------ [opentag('div', {}), opentag('div', {}), opentag('div', {}), text('Hi'), closetag('div'), closetag('div'), closetag('div')] kinds: ['opentag', 'opentag', 'opentag', 'text', 'closetag', 'closetag', 'closetag'] WHAT A REAL BROWSER WOULD RENDER ------------------------------ Three divs, genuinely nested three levels deep, with "Hi" as the content of the INNERMOST one -- not three empty, self-closed boxes sitting next to each other. Visually: a single block of text reading "Hi", wrapped by three levels of (by default, invisible) div containers, one inside the next. Nothing about the "/" characters changed anything about the final structure at all -- the markup behaves exactly as if it had been written "
Hi
" from the start, with the div tags containing no trailing slashes anywhere. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ Every one of the three "/" characters gets stripped and discarded by tokenize's own self_closing_slash handling, but NONE of the three div tag names appear in VOID_ELEMENTS -- so every single one falls through to the plain `opentag` branch instead of `voidtag`. Because opentag never synthesizes a matching closetag the way a real self-closing element would, all three divs stay genuinely open, waiting for real closing tags -- and the three real tags at the end of the source are exactly what closes them, one level at a time, from the innermost outward. This is the same finding the chapter itself demonstrated with a single div, just scaled up to make the "it silently nests instead of self-closing" behavior impossible to miss.