Posted by Jim Moe on 08/03/07 23:21

Jeff Dege wrote:
>>> I'm trying to lay out some divs that have content inserted via
>>> javascript. Just because it's cleaner, I've been using self-closing
>>> div elements: "<div />"
>>>
>> That is XML syntax, not HTML. To an HTML parser "<div />" resolves to
>> "<div>".
>> Run the code through a validator.
>
> I'd figured that since every time I type "<br>" into my editor, it
> changes it to "<br />", that HTML 4+ had incorporated self-closing
> elements.
>
What editor are you using that is so helpful?

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