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  1. May 21st, 2012, 11:04 PM #1
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    why we use forward slash with br tag

    Hi. I've seen this practice in video tutorials as well as on online website that in single tags like br, a forward slash is used with it like this:

    <br />

    Why do we used this forward slash, is it since old versions or its only in new versions of html?
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    Re: why we use forward slash with br tag

    http://ask.metafilter.com/111737/The-trailing-slash


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    Re: why we use forward slash with br tag

    In XML, <x/> is equivalent to <x></x>.
    In HTML, the br element has no closing tag, so only <br> is necessary. However, people often write <br /> for readability's sake, and for consistency with XML, which always requires closing tags.
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    Re: why we use forward slash with br tag

    It's also to maintain standards with XHTML doc formats.

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    Re: why we use forward slash with br tag

    Thank you very much all of you my teachers and brothers.

    One more related thing which i asked in my question as well, that has it always been a practice to put forward slash with br <br /> or its a new practice?
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    Re: why we use forward slash with br tag

    No, it hasn't always been that way but it isn't new either: I've been doing that for 10+ years...

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