[thelist] [doctypes] why the line break?

David Dorward evolt at david.us-lot.org
Wed Jul 9 12:32:08 CDT 2003


> > > is the line break shown in doctypes [...] necessary?

> > No.

> I'm curious, too. Why is it there if not needed?

Why is there ever a line break in an HTML document? To make the
document more readable and to keep lines under 80 characters for sane
word wrapping.

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