On Sep 29, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Omar KN <[email protected]> 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 "[email protected]" 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/924D5CF6-FB92-432F-9AB2-FAD0810A4E15%40faiman.org.
