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@@ -1596,8 +1596,8 @@ your test suite.
closed or the HTML document ends.
* Empty tags are equivalent to their self-closing version.
* The ordering of attributes of an HTML element is not significant.
- * Attributes without an argument are equal to attributes that equal in
- name and value (see the examples).
+ * Boolean attributes (like ``checked``) without an argument are equal to
+ attributes that equal in name and value (see the examples).
* Text, character references, and entity references that refer to the same
character are equivalent.
@@ -1620,6 +1620,12 @@ your test suite.
Output in case of error can be customized with the ``msg`` argument.
+ .. versionchanged:: 4.0
+
+ In older versions, any attribute (not only boolean attributes) without
+ a value was considered equal to an attribute with the same name and
+ value.
+
.. method:: SimpleTestCase.assertHTMLNotEqual(html1, html2, msg=None)
Asserts that the strings ``html1`` and ``html2`` are *not* equal. The