Re: <br /> in HTML allowed ?

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 xanthor@netcourrier.com wrote:

> I thougth that <br /> weren't allowed in HTML : it's said in the specs (http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/struct/text.html#edef-BR) that the empty tag is forbidden.
> But the validator accept it (And mozilla keeps in "Standards compliance mode")
> So, are <br /> accepted in HTML 4.01 ?

Yes, but it doesn't mean what you think.  See
<http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html>.

-- 
Liam Quinn

Received on Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:08:49 UTC