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Posted by Kyle Boyer
Kyle Boyer
4,773 Points

<br> autocorrects to <br />

I am using MS Visual Web Developer, and every time I type <br>, it auto-corrects to <br /> Does anyone know why this is? More importantly, is there any significant difference between the two?

1 Answer

Ara Hacobian
Ara Hacobian
5,158 Points
Ara Hacobian
Ara Hacobian
5,158 Points

If your question is why the line break tag in your editor is "auto correcting" is because the template you're working off of or file you're opening and editing over is most probably using XHTML doctype rather than the HTML 4.01 Transitonal doctypes. Or the settings in your editor are set to follow XHTML standards. From what I know the line break with a space and a forward slash were used to be cross browser friendly and is better code semantically. I am not too familiar with previous doctypes used but since XHTML also uses XML markup any opening tag must have a closing tag. Which why the space and forward slash are added. Makes it W3C compliant and cross-browser friendly.

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