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LWC

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Geeklog only closes standalone tags (like br) in XHTML mode. I was just wondering why don't you instinctively close every standalone tag with or without XHTML? It probably takes you more time to write ". XHTML ." instead of just "/".

Or maybe is it for future cases in which the XHTML parameter would be something different than "/"?

Just curious.
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<br/> is not valid HTML.

bye, Dirk
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Interesting. I thought XHTML is just stricter HTML. How come nl2br uses this slash?
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ironmax

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This might actually clear it up for you.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/12284.htm

or here

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_br.asp

and for your nl2br

http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php

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The bottom line is that the nl2br version Geeklog uses always outputs the slash. Geeklog uses nl2br in a lot of places, whether it uses the HTML modes or not. The only solution at this version is to run nl2br through a middleman function that cuts off the slash in HTML mode.

I've therefore added this to the tracker. Are there any other PHP commands that always output slash in standalone HTML tags?
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ironmax

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I've therefore added this to the tracker. Are there any other PHP commands that always output slash in standalone HTML tags?



See if this helps.

http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1334/php-strip_tags-and-standalone-xhtml-elements.html

Michael
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