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Brian Pitts
Courses Plus Student 3,826 PointsWhat is appropriate HTML5 syntax: <br> or <br/>?
Interestingly, even the MDN docs show examples on the same page when discussing their use in <address> as line breaks: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/address
I've read that you can use either, but <br/> is a remnant of the HTML4 spec that included xhtml (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1946426/html-5-is-it-br-br-or-br) and at W3 (https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_br.asp)
2 Answers
David Moorhead
18,005 Points"current best practices" since nothing is ever static in this world :)
No truer ^ words!
David Moorhead
18,005 PointsHi, Brian,
Good question. I tend to think in terms of best practices rather than "appropriate," so, with my tried-and-true "best practices" exercise, I replaced a <br> in the footer with both <br /><br/> side-by-side in some recent HTML markup. I ran the file through W3c's validator, and the markup resulted error free.
Well, that was good to know.
Thoughts?
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 PointsBetter to close it.
That's a 'best' practice considering frameworks like React etc...
MDN closes it as well.
Even though it's opinionated, I think it's best to close it.
Brian Pitts
Courses Plus Student 3,826 PointsI would just add "current best practices" since nothing is ever static in this world :)