Re^7: Keep quotes around numerical attributes after parsing with HTML::Treebuilder?

<br/> doesn't show a line break followed by a greater than symbol in version 1.05 of FireFox. To do that I have to effectively double-up the > symbol.

<br/ slurps everything until the next > into the line break, so it is definitely not the same as <br/>!

CountZero

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Re^8: Keep quotes around numerical attributes after parsing with HTML::Treebuilder? by dorward (Curate) on Jul 19, 2005 at 21:00 UTC
Most browsers have tag soup parsers that don't follow SGML rules correctly, Firefox is one of them. See how the validator handles it (by comparing the source code with the parse tree).	[reply]
Re^9: Keep quotes around numerical attributes after parsing with HTML::Treebuilder? by CountZero (Bishop) on Jul 19, 2005 at 21:14 UTC
You're right: `<br/` gets parsed into `<br></br>`. However, even under HTML 4.01 strict `<br/>` gets parsed into `<br></br>` as well! CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^10: Keep quotes around numerical attributes after parsing with HTML::Treebuilder? by dorward (Curate) on Jul 19, 2005 at 21:26 UTC
That is becuase <br> is defined as an empty element. That isn't my point though, look again: breaks in it >breaks in it	[reply]