--- Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ok I searhed for this in the english version of the php manual but
> could not find the answer. Often when I am reading a coding example I
> see code of the type <br /> With the backslash BEHIND the Closing HTML
> tag and with a space inbetween the tag and the backslash. This seems
> backward fromt he way I learned html coding. Is the something special
> to php and if so what does it do. As I said I searched the manual
> for ,<space> />,backslash, and "/>" But none of the hits seemed to
> descript that syntax.
As has already been touched on, what you are seeing is the proper syntax
for XML/XHTML. In HTML, some tags (for instance, <br>, <hr>, <img>) have
no closing tag. In XML (of which XHTML is a hybrid version still readable
by HTML-onbly browsers), *every* tag must have a closing tag. <br> by
itself is not proper XHTML, it should be written <br></br>, and <br /> is
an allowable shorthand method.
If you are not using XHTML (check the <!doctype> tag at the top of your
document. If there isn't one, there should be!), then you should not be
writing your tags with closing slashes.
Michael Roush
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