Actually, both of your examples are "invalid" according to the W3C which states that all attributes must be quoted: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/#h-4.4
The space before the trailing /> is irrelevant, it can appear or not without penalty: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/#h-4.6 It is however a good idea to put a space before the /> for readability. andy -----Original Message----- From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:07 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Regex help - matching invalid xhtml I guess it'd be cool if I were to use (meta|input|img) in there, to flag single tags without the trailing [space]/> Will ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316186 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4