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[Duramax 6.6L]

When closing a line is the following correct?

Standard line >
Image line />

I have been looking throgh the code and see quite a few of these.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="A full service store for oem and aftermarket performance parts." />

Is the closing /> wrong? Should it just be >?

[kube]

Hi Duramax,

No, it's not wrong. Empty HTML tags, the ones that do no not need an ending/closing tag, such as input, img, and meta should always end with /> to make an xhtml well-formed doc.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/xhtml_intro.shtml

Hope this helps.
Doms

[Duramax 6.6L]

Kube, thank you for the reading material.

is it true that && should actually be &amp;

[kube]

For valid XHTML it should be &amp; (as well as a few other html-encoded & types) but a straight & on its own should fail.

Language variables, in particular, seem to suffer from this and treat & as & rather than an &amp;