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Re: Quick question on divs in xhtml

From: Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk@opera.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:10:23 +0200
To: "HTML-tidy list" <html-tidy@w3.org>
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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:52:54 +0100, Jim Higson <jh@333.org> wrote:

>
> When I use -asxhtml, tidy changes this:
>
> <div class="foo" />
>
> into this:
>
> <div class="foo"></div>
>
> this seems odd to me. Is it a bug or a feature?

DIV is not an empty element in XHTML, so it is a feature.


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