Most people are ignorant of how bad most of the HTML on the web is, it is simply unparseable. If that was the case the web would be unusable. Any decent web br

Most people are ignorant of how bad most of the HTML on the web is, it is simply unparseable. If that was the case the web would be unusable. Any decent web browser will parse almost any garbage you throw at it. It can get complicated because you find yourself guessing at what the author's intent might have been or moving things around to make it semi-sane, but it's not only possible; it's done every day.