froggyboy604
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I see some websites use <br> and other websites use <br />. Which one is better for creating a line break?
<br> vs <br /> what is the difference, and which is better?
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froggyboy604
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Re: <br> vs <br /> what is the difference, and which is bett
Thanks death180 for the explanation. I think I use <br /> from now on.
Thanks death180 for the explanation. I think I use <br /> from now on.
Re: <br> vs <br /> what is the difference, and which is bett
Although both are correctly understood by all the most recent (by recent I mean, 2008 and later) browsers (including the horrible IE), <br /> is a better coding practice, and is a more recent approach because it is XHTML.
XHTML is the same as HTML, but XHTML is considered as the evolution of HTML, thus is better (in my opinion) to use XHTML. XHTML is based on the XML markup and that's why even single tags like <br /> and <img source="..." /> need to have the closing slash (/) in the end preceded by a space ( ).
HTML5 (in development) is considered by some as the successor of XHTML
Read more about this on the usual site...
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML
PS: if you really want to know my own opinion, nowadays browsers understand basically all the types of HTML, from HTML1 to HTML5 including XHTML, and they even parse correctly mixtures of these standards, and I don't really follow a standard. Let's say my HTML is something between HTML4.1 and XHTML. 😀
Although both are correctly understood by all the most recent (by recent I mean, 2008 and later) browsers (including the horrible IE), <br /> is a better coding practice, and is a more recent approach because it is XHTML.
XHTML is the same as HTML, but XHTML is considered as the evolution of HTML, thus is better (in my opinion) to use XHTML. XHTML is based on the XML markup and that's why even single tags like <br /> and <img source="..." /> need to have the closing slash (/) in the end preceded by a space ( ).
HTML5 (in development) is considered by some as the successor of XHTML
Read more about this on the usual site...
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML
PS: if you really want to know my own opinion, nowadays browsers understand basically all the types of HTML, from HTML1 to HTML5 including XHTML, and they even parse correctly mixtures of these standards, and I don't really follow a standard. Let's say my HTML is something between HTML4.1 and XHTML. 😀
Re: <br> vs <br /> what is the difference, and which is bett
I'm aware of that. As I use PHP and CSS mostly now, it's easy to stay within the rules, as on most complex PHP scripts, on some files there is almost no HTML (and styles are defined though CSS).death180 said:
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Re: <br> vs <br /> what is the difference, and which is bett
I always used <br /> when coding.
I always used <br /> when coding.
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