Thanks Mislav.  That makes sense.  Yeah, if we could use true XHMTL
the world would be a nicer place.  One day!

On Apr 11, 10:41 am, "Mislav Marohnić" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:18 PM, treybean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > If I do:
>
> > haml_tag :div, :class=>'clearfloat'
>
> > it generates:
>
> > <div class="clearfloat"/>
>
> In XHTML, this is perfectly valid, safe and legal. But, if you're serving
> your pages as text/html (which you are because IE doesn't support XHTML),
> this would be parsed like an opening tag for DIV and the tag soup parser
> will continue to search for what it thinks could be the closing tag. In most
> cases, the document would render all messed-up (depending on your CSS,
> mostly).
>
> You can use this:
>
>   haml_tag :div, nil, :class=>'clearfloat'
>
> - Mislav
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