line-break ??

Can anyone explain to me why Dreamweaver inserts a line break as (br \)
with angle brackets of course ..

instead of the usual (br)

Why the backslash and why the space ?? ??

Because you have told it to use XHTML when you created your new page?

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"Neil_vN" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Can anyone explain to me why Dreamweaver inserts a line break as (br \)
with angle brackets of course ..

instead of the usual (br)

Why the backslash and why the space ?? ??

On Thu 15 Jul 2004 05:02:38p, Neil_vN wrote in macromedia.dreamweaver:

Can anyone explain to me why Dreamweaver inserts a line break as (br \)
with angle brackets of course ..

instead of the usual (br)

Why the backslash and why the space ?? ??

The W3C can:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.6

I am using a template.

And it does say this in the header ..
(html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en")

You would have to break down the difference and the explanation down to basics
please. :-)

Can anyone explain to me why Dreamweaver inserts a line break as (br \)
with angle brackets of course ..

It's actually <br />

You are using XHTML

in XHTML all tags must be closed.

If a tag doesn't have a corresponding closing tag (like the BR, IMG, or HR
tags have) then they have to be self-closed, which the trailing slash
indicates.

-Darrel

thanks everyone. I appreciate the time you guys took in answering this. It makes perfect sense now. :-)