[thelist] end tags?

**1st Vamp** wes at pmason.karoo.co.uk
Mon Apr 22 08:08:01 CDT 2002


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<img src="img.gif" alt="This is an Image"/> would also be correct by XHTML standards, but
older browsers have been known to have problems with this syntax and so the space is used
before the /.

- - Vamp

Monday, April 22, 2002, 5:52:27 AM, Ian Glass wrote:

<snip>

> Not really.  All elements in XML (and XHTML) *do* have end tags and *must*
> be closed, but you can use the shorted form instead:

>    <img src="img.gif" alt="This is an Image" />
>    <br />
>    <input id="input" type="text" />

> instead of:

>    <img src="img.gif" alt="This is an Image"></img>
>    <br></br>
>    <input id="input" type="text"></input>

> Both are correct strictly according to the standard, but older browsers may
> have trouble when you close an element they don't know should be
> closed.  Hence, most people just use the shorted syntax (that and it's less
> typing).  :-)

> ~~Ian

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