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[audiopro]

I am trying my best to keep up with best practice but keep hitting contradictions.
Many sites say

Use <br /> rather than <br>

but when you validate, it throws a wobbly on every instance of <br />

So what is the most acceptable way?

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[feherke]

Hi

Use <br /> rather than <br>

The author of that sentence should have been mentioned that
[ul]
[li][tt]<br />[/tt] is XHTML[/li]
[li][tt]<br>[/tt] is HTML[/li]
[/ul]
So use the one matching your [tt]DOCTYPE[/tt] declaration.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[smah]

but when you validate....

To what DOCTYPE are you validating?

 

[audiopro]

To what DOCTYPE are you validating?

Both strict and loose depending on the particular site.
I can't see why it should make a difference except that the whole thing is controlled by academics, so chaos has to result.
We have HTML, why do we need different types of HTML?


Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[feherke]

Hi

We have HTML, why do we need different types of HTML?

It is called evolution.

But if you ask me, I would say that evolution has dead end branches too and XHTML is one of them.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[audiopro]

I would have thought that we could have a standard that applied to every web page on the 'Interweb'. I assume that the academics shroud it in mystery so that people with common sense are lead to believe that academics rule the world.

The academics may well do, but I wish the Victorian pioneers were in charge, at least we would have some order of sense on the web.

OK - Ranty over - time to do some work

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk