RE: [PHP] why is html code written like this? <hr />

The entire point of <xx /> is backwards compatibility. Read the spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ -B > -----Original Message----- > From: Victor [mailto:victor@argilent.com] > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 7:35 AM > To: 'Adrian Murphy'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] why is html code written like this? <hr /> > > > Ok, but is this kind of html compliant with old browsers like Netscape > 4? Is it compliant with most new browsers? > > - Victor > www.argilent.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Murphy [mailto:adrian.murphy@2020tourism.com] > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 7:13 AM > To: victor@argilent.com; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] why is html code written like this? <hr /> > > thats xhtml - it's xml comliant html. > tags must be closed so a tag like <hr> which didn't > have a closing tag is written <hr /> > so,for example in php the nl2br() function now produces > <br /> instead of the old <br> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Victor" <victor@argilent.com> > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 12:16 PM > Subject: [PHP] why is html code written like this? <hr /> > > > > When I learned html it was always written like this: </hr> now I see > > people write it like this: <hr />... why? > > > > - Victor > www.argilent.com > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > __________________________________________________________________ > ____ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >