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Use "<br />" or "<br>"?
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    Posted: 22 May 2003 at 1:50am
What is the differences between "<br />" and "<br>"? I saw that microsoft started to use the / in the end of theirs html-tags a year ago, and now it's used in ver 7 of this forum too...
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As I understand it the only difference is <br> relates to pure HTML whereas <br /> relates to the new XHTML.

Anyone designing web pages should really be using XHTML code now, other differences like including / in image tags, like <img src="myimage.gif" width="10" height="10" />
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Correct. In XHTML and XML unterminated tags are forbidden, so eg:

<p>First paragraph

<p>Second paragraph

is illegal, even though most browsers will display it correctly. Paragraphs must be terminated with </p>.

However, not all tags are paired, such as <br>, <hr> and <img ...> to name a few. These must be written as <br />, <hr /> and <img ... />, etc.

The space before the closing / is also essential, as <br/> (etc) without the space will confuse browsers.

More info a www.w3.org
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