Re: HWG-Basics: XHTML 1.0 validation

Meta tags are empty elements and therefore do require the closing slash.
The space before the slash is actually a hack intended to prevent display
errors from some earlier platforms. The space is not required, but will not
interfere with validation or well-formedness in general. THe closing slash
is required for any empty element:

<meta ... />
<br/> or <br />
<hr/> or <hr />
<input ... />

...etc

D

----- Original Message -----
From: Art Zoller Wagner

It appears that you have to use " />" at the end of meta and link tags. I
think there is a space required before the "/"

This validates:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/zw.css" />

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