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Posted by robert on 05/26/06 17:16
"ZeldorBlat" <zeldorblat@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| 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?
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| > | >the "<br>" seems to work !!
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| > | 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.
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| I'll give it a try then.
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| 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.
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| 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.
thank you, zb.
(wasn't too hard, was it mj? that would have given you the opportunity to
show you know *something* about *a* topic discussed in this forum! alas,
another miss.)
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