- From: Tom Gilder <tom@tom.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:50:34 +0100
- To: public-evangelist@w3.org
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, 5:56:25 AM, you wrote: > > "In XHTML, even "empty" tags like <br> and <img> must close themselves > > by including a space and a forward slash at the very end of the tag" > > > > Not very good usage of "must". It is a good idea to, but you don't > > *have* to. > > I don't understand you. If it's X(HT)ML, empty elements (she conflates > elements and tags here, too) _must_ be closed Sorry, I was referring to "must include a space". Empty elements don't *have* to, if you aren't following the HTML backwards-compatible guidelines. It was an extremely picky comment though :) -- Tom Gilder http://tom.me.uk/
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