This is beautiful!

<br class="hack"/>





Chris Maden <crism @ oreilly.com> on 03/04/99 02:13:24 PM

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[Guy_Murphy]
> I haven't tried it myself, as I confess all my experiments have been
> with IE4+, but might <BR></BR> fool NN? Hopefully it will
> acknowledge the opening tag and ignore the closing one.

NS interprets </BR> as a mis-entered <BR>.  Netscape (and IE, I think)
determine a tag name from < to space or >.  So <BR/> is recognized as
a start-tag for the unknown BR/ element.

When creating XHTML by hand, <br /> will work.  But transformation
engines can't be forced to do that.  The perfectly legal syntax that I
use is <br class="hack"/>.

-Chris
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