in reply to Re^3: Wiki-Style syntax for posting
in thread Wiki-Style syntax for posting

</br> is just plain wrong.

In HTML, it's "<br>".

In XHTML, it's "<br></br>" (with nothing in the middle) or the equivalent shortcut "<br/>".

So "</br>" is not "just plain wrong", only when used improperly.

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Re^5: Wiki-Style syntax for posting
by SFLEX (Chaplain) on Oct 16, 2008 at 12:06 UTC
    Your just "plain wrong" about XHTML.
    The proper way to use that tag in XHTML is this way and only this way.
     <br />
    And here is a link you can learn from.
    http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_br.asp
    Spiel auf Hündinnen.
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      No, he's right. Allow me to quote from W3C's XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) specification, to be precise, section 4.6. Empty Elements:
      Empty elements must either have an end tag or the start tag must end with />. For instance, <br/> or <hr></hr>. See HTML Compatibility Guidelines for information on ways to ensure this is backward compatible with HTML 4 user agents.
      Now, it's true that in the same document, one of the appendices, C.2. Empty Elements recommends using <br />, but that's just a recommendation, empty elements with a open and end tag are allowed.
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