<rant> now there's one thing about XML that I tend to disagree with.
The need for consistency in opening versus closing tags is something I understand and agree with whole-heartedly however, the ability to shorthand <br> ... </br> to <br /> is something I think is a major cop-out to the whole "every beginning statement needs a corresponding ending statement" concept. I just want to know whose (most likely plural in nature) pocketbook was deep enough to accomplish such a farce. </rant> or maybe I should have just typed it as <rant /> Best Regards, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Roush To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [php_mysql] A beginners question about <....... /> --- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect." -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ The PHP_mySQL group is dedicated to learn more about the PHP_mySQL web database possibilities through group learning. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php_mysql/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] The PHP_mySQL group is dedicated to learn more about the PHP_mySQL web database possibilities through group learning. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php_mysql/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
