line break question

pusscat · #1 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 09:25 AM

If using the line break do you need a opening tag for it aswell as a closing one.

example

 text here

or is it

text here or is the slash after the br

as am validating my pages as make them and getting errors on one or two
pages and its the that has the problem everything else validates great
I need the line breaks in some of the paragraphs

Thanks

Angie

ishkey · #2 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 11:10 AM

Depending on which DTD (Document Type Definition) you have in the top of your page determines which style to use.

 - Is HTML complaint.
 - Is xHTML complaint

they are stand alone tags, just like the <hr> tag creates a horizontal line in an HTML page.

example

Code:

<p>YourName<br>123 Street<br>Some Town</p>

code would output:
YourName
123 Street
Some Town

pusscat · #3 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 03:26 PM

The following is the Doc Type
Am taking it that it will be 
When validating its coming up with a problem with the tags so am a bit unsure why now.
There is no opening tag I take it?

<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

pusscat · #4 (**permalink**) 10-21-2009, 03:44 PM

Ok took html through html tidy and that found no problems, so re-validated it and its come up with no problems

which is wierd as havent made any changes to it since last validated and it came up with errors

But aslong as its clean thats the main thing

Thanks for the help is appreciated

Angie

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