Posted by Geoff Berrow on 06/09/06 21:07

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John Dunlop contained the following:

>> I never heard about a case where <br /> did cause any problem...
>
> I can think of a couple. For example, validation. <br /> means
>something different in HTML than it does in XHTML. In HTML, '/' closes
>the tag and '>' is treated literally. Not a big problem, maybe, but
>probably not what you meant.

It is annoying though that nl2br() only returns <br /> Would it be so
difficult to include a switch so that it could output <br> ?

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