- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:18:59 +0100
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Alex Mogilevsky wrote: > * BR is defined in HTML as an empty element. It can't have any conent As an aside, BR historically had the same effect as the break commands in TeX and troff. It was only when GUI browsers started being written that, de facto, it got redefined as being equivalent to a word processor hard newline. The distinction is that break commands do nothing if one is already at the start of a line (have no text pending justification), so, in particular, multiple consecutive BRs are equivalent to a single one. There is also an element of this in the recent HTML specifications of P elements, which say that empty P elements should be ignored. Neither of these behaviours are, in practice, implemented in GUI browsers. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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