Hi Andras, Andras Farkas writes: > Today I noticed, when looking at an autoindex page on my own website, > that despite the page being HTML (as evidenced by <hr> being used > rather than <hr/> further down, and also by the page being served as > text/html) there was a single instance of an XHTML-style element: > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> > Notice the second to last character, the slash. This makes the META > element here invalid HTML.
This is not actually invalid HTML these days. The HTML5 spec allows closing slash in <meta>, even when served with a non-XML MIME type, and simply ignores the slash. However, it's probably worthwhile to use the modern idiom here, which is <meta charset="utf-8"> -- Anthony J. Bentley
