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Posted by frederick on 01/08/10 11:45
David Dorward wrote:
> 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,
Ah, I'll have a read of that!
> but the actual reference would be the SGML spec - and I don't
> think that is freely available.
I had a feeling that that was where the answer lay...
Thanks,
AGw.
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