It's not a lot more than curiosity,
which is the difference between <br> and <br /> ?
I see both of them widely used and abused, are they completely interchangeable ?
BigFormat 0 Light Poster
essential 84 Posting Shark Featured Poster
This <br> tag is best used in HTML format using( .html extension ) and this <br /> tag goes with XHTML (or .xhtml saved document ).
pspwxp fan 1 Junior Poster in Training
It's not a lot more than curiosity,
which is the difference between <br> and <br /> ?I see both of them widely used and abused, are they completely interchangeable ?
<br/> is used in XHTML which is a much stricter form of html :) .
BigFormat 0 Light Poster
So in any case there are no cons using <br/> instead of <br> even in "simple" HTML ?
<br/> is the same withot space btw 'r' and '/' ?
essential 84 Posting Shark Featured Poster
<br/> <!-- or --> <br /> it doesn't matter as long as you are using it with the correct doctype.
BigFormat 0 Light Poster
<br/> <!-- or --> <br />it doesn't matter as long as you are using it with the correct doctype.
I don't get it, can you please show me with an example the relation to the doctype?
MidiMagic 579 Nearly a Senior Poster
The space is there in <br /> to make the self-closing tags compatible with IE 6 and earlier. IE renders it wrong without the space.
sreein1986 0 Posting Whiz
the main difference between <br > and <br /> is <br> is used html earlier versions and <br /> is used in the latest version like the below tags also
<img src="" > ------------- <img src="" />
<b> </b>---------------- <strong> </strong>
<i> -------------- <em> </em> BigFormat 0 Light Poster
Ok, so it's definitely better to use <br /> in any case from my pov...
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