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What does this tag do:




I know
is a line break, but what about with the / in it??

Er,
doesn't exist and is ignored by all browsers last time I checked. It's one of the only elements (along with and suchlike) that not only doesn't require a closeing tag, it doesn't have one.

OK, thanks for the explanation.

is the correct way of inserting a line break into XML.

No way!! i'd hate to write
after a break, bah.

I think its because the W3 organisation are trying to move away from HTML standards and make it more like XML (to create XHTML). And in XML every tag that is opened needs to be closed again in order to validate against the DTD.


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What does this tag do:




I know
is a line break, but what about with the / in it??