On Sep 29, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Omar KN <omne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So now BREAK should be only <br> in HTML5. > > Until a week ago the w3 corrector marked <br /> as the only correct way. > > w3: > "Self-closing tag syntax in text/html documents is widely discouraged." Some > for
If you’re using <!doctype HTML>, you’re writing HTML5. According to the HTML5 specs at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/>, (dated September 28, 2022) Section 13.1.2.1, Start tags: • After the attributes, or after the tag name if there are no attributes, there may be one or more ASCII whitespace. (Some attributes are required to be followed by a space. See the attributes section below.) • Then, if the element is one of the void elements, or if the element is a foreign element, then there may be a single U+002F SOLIDUS character (/). This character has no effect on void elements, but on foreign elements it marks the start tag as self-closing. • Finally, start tags must be closed by a U+003E GREATER-THAN SIGN character (>). The enumeration of void elements in section 13.1.2 lists br as a void element. Therefore, at least in the eyes of WHATWG, the slash is optional in a <br> tag. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/924D5CF6-FB92-432F-9AB2-FAD0810A4E15%40faiman.org.
