[Zachery]

Originally Posted by firstrebel

Normally most tags need to be closed, such as <p></p>, but the br tag is one of a few that has never need to be closed, that is why most have always used <br>. With things moving on, especially with XHTML you should close all tags, so this should be <br />. It is also a good idea to close all other similar tags by putting a space then /> after the tag name. For example with the img tag -

<img src="graphics/v8_engine.gif" alt="Animated V8 engine" width="90" height="90" border="0" align="left" />

Bob

Its not normally bob, its in Older versions of HTML tags were abit less well defined.

In HTML 4 and such, not all tags that were opened needed to be closed.

<br> for examle is a prefectly valid tag in html 4, as well as <img src="">

<table>
<tr>
<td>
<td>
<td>
<td>
</tr>
</table>

I believe is valid in html3 and possibly also 4. XHTML came around and it made lots of changes to how things should and should not be done in the code, it was alot of standarization. All tags are lower case, all tags must be opened and closed. Some tags must have additional attirbutes.

So, <br> becomes <br /> and <img src=""> becomes <img src="" alt="" />. Tables get more strict too as well as deprecated.

<table>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>

Not to mention tons of times in less well coded html people would use the <p> tag like it was a br tag and thats also not accectable.