Re: xhtml meta tags

by Christopher Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>

Date:	Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:33:24 +1100
To:	szcam <szcam(at)pub.sz.jsinfo.net>, hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
In-Reply-To:	default
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G'Day Mark,

At 05:57 am 25/01/01 +0000, szcam wrote:
>Can anyone tell me if you need to use the end tag for correct xhtml
>compliance when using meta tags or does it only apply to the body tags. 

Yes, end tags are required, but with META tags, you use the combined form:

<meta type="description" content="whatever" />

>Will this affect search engines if you do use the end tag.

Not an end tag, but a combined tag like I've illustrated above - and it
shouldn't affect the search engines provided there is a space between the
last attribute and the closing bracket.

>I have searched the W3C standards but there does not appear to be any
>reference to this.

Try Appendix C (I believe) of the XHTML 1.0 standard - making XHTML work
with current browsers.

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