XHTML Strict: br tag inside p tag

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coure2011 picture coure2011 · Apr 22, 2010 · Viewed 14.4k times · Source

I get lots of validation errors because of <br /> inside <p>. If I remove the br tags then it works fine.

Why is it creating a problem?

Answer

Rich Adams picture Rich Adams · Apr 22, 2010

It's not that the br is inside the p, but rather you're not ending the br with the / character. You have <br> in the code, when it should be <br/>. Which is why the validation error is "end tag for "br" omitted", it's telling you that you've not ended the tag correctly with a /.

Note that in HTML4 it's not required to close the br tag with a final slash, but in XHTML it is required as it's a singleton tag.

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