Alan Lord wrote:
> John Miller wrote:
>
>> I noticed an extra forward slash in a few tags, could IE be having
>> problems with them?
>>
>> "<div id="header"><a id="logo"
>> href="http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/";><img
>> src="/lfs/chrome/site/lfs-logo.png" width="192" height="75" alt="Linux
>> From Scratch" /></a><hr /></div>"
>>
>> at end of the alt field, and in the hr tag
>>
>> and several slashes at the end of the input fields following the logo
>> line.
>
>
> Isn't that just Xhtml? I thought that this is the correct way to write
> tags which do not have a separate closing tag (<a...>stuf</a>). Like the
> <br /> tag for example.
>
> I wouldn't have thought the IE would barf at this although stranger
> things have been known with M$oft...
Yes, the self closing tag is part of the xhtml standard where *all* tags
must be closed. You can use <hr></hr> or <hr/>. The standard mentions
that you might want to put a closing space before the closing / as in
<hr /> for *broken* browsers. Actually the broken broswers they refer
to are quite old. None AFAIK are from this century.
The problem with IE is generally not {x,}html. It is css.
-- Bruce
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