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HTML

Posted by Suli X
Suli X
Courses Plus Student 289 Points

<br /> or <br> ?

I saw many articles online that prefer <br /> more than <br> tag. However, here in trehouse videos I saw them use <br>. The same for the <img ...>

So, which one is the 'best practice'?

2 Answers

Jake Craige
Jake Craige
4,913 Points
Jake Craige
Jake Craige
4,913 Points

The answer on this post explains it. For most modern applications the 

<br>

will do just fine

Michael Guerra
Michael Guerra
558 Points
Michael Guerra
Michael Guerra
558 Points

In HTML, you don't need to include the " />" on self-closing tags. That was only something you had to do in XHTML. In HTML 5, you don't even have to close most tags at all, although it feels weird not to, so I'd still close them, but don't worry about the self-closing tags if you're using the HTML doctype (ie. <br>, <hr>, <meta name="description" content="Your site description">, etc...).