[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
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 [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
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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 7:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [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 __ 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
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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 7:35 AM To: 'Adrian Murphy'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 7:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [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 __ 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
