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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
