It won't work in any other browser I know of as well. See this demo
case:
http://dusan.fora.si/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/tags.html
(explained at http://dusan.fora.si/blog/self-closing-tags )
Of course I don't suggest using an empty div tag with no id. It was
just an example.
But, semantically, even empty tags with ids are bad practice, are they
not?
I believe quite some time will pass before we get real xml support in
most browsers.
It's a shame...
On Nov26, 2007, at 12:19 AM, Jason Grant wrote:
Hi Dusan,
Here are some of the unofficial guidelines I work with:
<div /> will not work with IE in certain circumstances. It might
give you
some errors which you might find mind-bogglingly difficult to debug
(i.e.
very weird behaviour).
<div></div> will behave much better, but (unless you have an ID or a
class
on it) I suggest you do not use empty <div>s at all. I certainly
don't use
them. What's the real need for it if you think about it really?
As far as <input /> is concerned, it is a sort of a special tag in
so far
that all its attributes are defined within the tag (i.e. value,
type, name,
id, class, size, maxlength, etc.), so there is no need for any content
between the opening and closing tags, hence in XHTML we use <input
type=""
value="" name="" />. This is valid XML and it conforms to the
standards.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Jason
www.flexewebs.com
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