Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:05:21 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Tags like <br/> and our current doctype Message-ID: <1109934321.3926.52.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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>From what I recall, tags like <br> are self closing in the HTML 4.0 and 4.01 doctypes, i.e. <br /> is redundant and confuses (or is supposed to anyway) the parser into thinking the last tag was closed. However, if I change this to <br>, even with our doctype, it freaks out. I suppose that the parser doesn't really care what our doctype is, it just wants the content to be XML-compliant. <br> is XML compliant, if you have the right entity definition. So I see two possible options for the future: 1) Figure out how to make the parser like <br> and keep our current doctype (or upgrade to HTML 4.01/Strict), or 2) Hop over to XHTML 1.0/Transitional, which will allow us to utilize features of XHTML (and let us keep <br />, which is valid in XHTML) while still having our Content-type as text/html (this isn't allowed for any other XHTML doctype) Ideas? --Devon
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