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[amiw]

If I replace <br> with <br /> will it work in all modern and old browsers?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

How old is "old"?

NN6 could be classed as "old", and so could IE3 - but they are a world apart.

Dan


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[amiw]

Well going back to Netscape 4 and IE 5, though I suppose that the percentage of people using these browsers is probably less than 1%.
The reason I asked was that firefox doesn't put a line break in when I use <br>, but does with <br /> so I was thinking of replacing all <br> with <br />

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Really? I get proper breaks with either - regardless of my DOCTYPE (or lack of).

Can you post your code that isn't working (or a small test harness), or a URL to it?

Dan


[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]

 

[Foamcow]

older browsers (v4 etc) tend to be pretty forgiving when rendering markup. I would imagine (and this is just a guess) that they'll just ignore the slash and treat <br /> just the same as <br>

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[EdwardMartinIII]

If not, you can always use

<br></br>

Browsers that don't kowtow to the tyranny of the slash will ignore the closing tag.

Cheers,

Edward

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