in reply to close end tag

<br /> tags don't have closing tags in html. They're either written as I've done here, or written without the / which will work fine if parsed as html but fail for xhtml, which requires the closing / (but it goes inside the same tag for br). You should not be looking for </br> tags, because they should not be there.

(Update: except, as ikegami rightly points out below, you can have <br></br>tags in xhtml.)

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Re^2: close end tag
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 27, 2009 at 07:00 UTC

    <br /> tags don't have closing tags in html.

    That statement is wrong by definition. <br/> is short for <br></br>, so you're saying that something with a closing tag can't have a closing tag.

    (Technically, <br/.../ is short for <br>...</br> in HTML, but the HTML parsers used by web browsers don't support that. If they did, it would also be invalid since the BR element cannot have content or a closing tag.)

    <br></br> is perfectly valid XHTML. It's the unabbreviated form of <br/>.

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      I think the intent was clear. If you prefer, read it as "don't have separate closing tags in html."
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        You used the term "html" to refer to both the SGML and XML serialisations of HTML, so I thought you might have been saying <br></br> is not allowed in XHTML either.

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