I just noticed that my display of this node How to analyse structured data to get a hash was totally messed up (no line breaks), but becomes kind of "readable" after I logged off (the OP avoided code tags)

<Reveal this spoiler or all in this thread>

Turned out that my  Display Settings had "Enforce proper nesting of HTML" enabled, which didn't go well with the OP's use of </br> tags.

Though after reading the help page, I don't understand why

Merely an information, not sure if this demands action.

FWIW: disabled the option now.

Cheers Rolf
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Re: side effects "Enforce proper nesting of HTML"
by tye (Sage) on Jun 05, 2017 at 04:15 UTC

    Because many browsers have decided to treat </br> as if it were something useful like <br />. The current version of our HTML parsing code does not go quite so far in assigning meaning to nonsense.

    - tye        

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      Shouldn't illegal markup always be rejected?

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
      Je suis Charlie!

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        Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
        —Postel's law

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        I would support it. I would support removing deprecated HTML as well.

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