On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:24 AM, tedd wrote:
At 8:37 PM +0100 9/21/08, Stut wrote:
That's what the DocType is. It tells the browser what version of
(X)HTML you're using and therefore which tags are allowed and which
are not. It has a major effect on some browsers, and if you use the
right one it can help a lot when trying to make pages look the same
in all browsers. Worth reading up on.
-Stut
-Stut:
I've done a lot of reading about DOCTYPE's and I realize that the
DOCTYPE statement tells the browser what version of (X)HTML the web
page is, but I never made the connection that would limit how one
could use the <br> tag.
You know, you can read about the "br" tag everywhere without any
mention of DOCTYPE.
So in the end, we have <br>, <br/>, <br />, and <br></br> --
depending on what DOCTYPE you're using -- that sure makes things
simpler, huh?
Thanks for enlightening me on this.
Cheers,
tedd
If you're using XHTML at all, when you do a 'br' tag, the '/' is
required. Since XHTML (a type of XML) is only valid if well-formed,
not having the trailing '/' causes the document to not be valid XML.
It does not matter if you have the space or not before the forward
slash - the white space is ignored there anyway. So,
<br>
is not valid XHTML, but
<br/> and <br />
are. I personally use the one without the space. And <br></br> is just
not right at all (at least for XHTML, and I doubt for any other
doctype). You can look at the DTD for XHTML and see that <br></br> is
not an option.
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
~Philip
PS... tedd, I merely piggy-backed off of your email. This was meant
for the list as a whole. ;)
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