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Posted by ZeldorBlat on 05/26/06 17:04
robert wrote:
> "Martin Jay" <martin@spam-free.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:ACNM0fDWQvdEFwys@onenet.org.uk...
> | In message <HrqdnaFC05JRfevZRVnygA@bt.com>, MS
> | <nospamplaesegr8t_ukuk@yahoo.co.uk> writes
> | >Why do people use "<br/>" when outputting a string?
> | >
> | >the "<br>" seems to work !!
> |
> | In XHTML it should be <br /> and in HTML it should be <br>.
> |
> | If you don't know what XHTML is and when to use it, you should probably
> | be using HTML 4.01 (strict).
>
> hey wort (aka mj)...perhaps you could actually *help* this op and use the
> two or three sentences it would take to explain the reason(s) - such that he
> has a "v8" moment...as in, viola, ohhhhhh, etc.. else, your advise to use
> strict html 4.01 will be prompty filed in the op's circular bin as you give
> him NO incentive to follow said advice.
>
> however, by now you (and the rest here) know that i think the circular bin
> is where ANY AND ALL "advice" you give should be stored.
I'll give it a try then.
In XHTML all tags must close (and be properly nested). So, <foo></foo>
is fine, because it got closed. <foo> by itself (assuming there's no
</foo> anywhere else) is not fine because it doesn't close.
HTML doesn't have this requirement. Some tags (like <br>, <input>, and
<hr>) don't have closing tags. But this is not proper XHTML (or XML,
for that matter). So they have the concept of a "self-closing tag,"
which is what the <br/> is.
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