Posted by Mark Parnell on 05/04/06 02:08

Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, ironcorona
<iron.corona@gmail.com> declared in alt.html:

> As far as I remember:
> There is no </meta> tag.

Not in HTML. In XHTML there is.

> <meta> is an empty tag and only has
> attributes.

Only in HTML - XHTML requires that *all* elements be closed. There are a
couple of ways of doing this, as David listed.

> So in HTML <meta> is okay and in XHTML <meta /> it must be
> closed properly.

And in XHTML </meta> is a perfectly valid way of closing it.

Ditto for </link>.

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Mark Parnell
My Usenet is improved; yours could be too:
http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

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