Posted by David Dorward on 12/23/06 10:33

johbns@acxes.com wrote:

> what is the difference between an ipen open tag and close tag?

Nothing - neither exist.

A start tag consists of a less than sign, an element name, then zero or more
attributes followed by a greater than sign.

An end tag consists of a less than sign, a slash, an element name, and a
greater than sign.

Some other syntaxes are allowed, but have very poor browser support, so
don't use them.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.7

XML also introduces empty element tags, but they are only relevant if you
are using XHTML (which you probably shouldn't be, although if you are: go
and read Appendix C half a dozen times).

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-starttags

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