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Posted by David Dorward on 11/24/64 11:45
frederick@southernskies.co.uk wrote:
>> > I know that <br> specifies a new line in HTML. What does <br /> do?
>> In HTML, it means "A line break followed by a greater than sign",
>> although most browsers get this wrong and treat it as "A line beak".
> I've never understood that, so perhaps today I'll try to get my head
> around it: can you point me to the relevant reference?
Well... http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html is a fairly detailed
explanation, but the actual reference would be the SGML spec - and I don't
think that is freely available.
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