Re: <br> tag incorrect, but validates anyway

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:19:34PM -0800, J. Takiff wrote:
>    Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my code has been validated
>    XHTML Strict despite a number of <br> tags written as follows: < /br>

You didn't provide any code, but I assume you have code that looks like:

  <br></br>

instead of:

  <br />

This is allowed in XHTML and the two statements are identically
equivalent.

If you are serving your XHTML as text/html then Appendix C says you
should use the latter syntax. It isn't clear if this is a hard
requirement or a strong suggestion as the spec isn't very well
written. (For this, and several other reasons, I avoid using XHTML for
serving up webpages).

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk