Just a random, non-important question

[Rudy]

I've been wondering recently, what the difference is between <br> and <br />?

It seems that they both do the exact same thing. Perhaps 1 is XHTML compliant, and the older one (<br>) is not?

I dunno. This is really random, and not important, but I've been curious - also to know if there are any advantages to one over the other.

 

[kpm547]

I don't know the answer, but I was asking the same question to myself.

 

[CodeName_88]

Actually, I noticed that each of them gives a slightly different spacing. Perhaps it's just me though.

 

[Rowan W]

XHTML requires every tag to be closed. Some HTML tags don't have a close tag, so in XHTML a slash (/) is added to <br>, to make <br />.

They both do exactly the same thing.

 

[Pakinium]

Thanks for telling .. really helpful

 

[lordzeus]

ok... that cleared out my doubt

 

[Rudy]

Me too. Thanks for that - I've always wondered about things like that before.

 

[Rajo]

yah
as rowan mentioned, it's the XHTML solution 2 close tags
if your pages have a XHTML declaration u need to redit all the html tags and close it

 

[Red Eyes Arena]

oh i see so <BR /> is only useful for xhtml thanks!

 

[Brian]

oh i see so <BR /> is only useful for xhtml thanks!

And it just looks sweet

 

[brandonlanglois]

Its the way they space HTML is wierd.