Just one question, why do people use </br> (update: either here or elsewhere), since BR is a element that has no content, as defined by W3C. It can be handily written as <br> or <br />. Allowing <br></br> is just silly, and allowing </ br> would produce non-valid documents.

Even if other sites think it is legitimate, it does not follow they are correct, or that we should do the same.

Just because sloppy markup is handled gracefully by browsers, doesn't mean it has to be sanctioned. Don't use it, and then you won't have to patch Perlmonks to allow it :)

• another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl

In reply to Re: Add < /br> to Approved tags? by grinder
in thread Add < /br> to Approved tags? by ww

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