Re: XHTML Problem With Netscape 6
by Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>
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At 15:23 26/02/02 -0500, cbirds(at)earthlink.net wrote:
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>Why do you have slashes before the closing bracket?( />)
XHTML (and XML) requires all open tags to be closed. Empty tags can be
closed in the normal way, like this:
<.tag></tag>
You can also close them in a shorthand way, which is more backwardly
compatible:
<.tag />
The space isn't necessary, but it helps backward compatiblity.
Andrew
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