not working in firefox and chrome

Question

break line tag is not working in firefox, neither in chrome. When i see the source of my page i get:

<p>Zugang zu Testaccount:</br></br>peter petrelli </br></br>sein Standardpwd.</br></br>peter.heroes.com</p>

However when i do view selected source, i get:

<p>Zugang zu Testaccount: peter petrelli  sein Standardpwd. peter.heroes.com</p>

It seems firefox is filtering break line tags out.

It works in IE7 fine.

Not sure why this question is being voted down. It's kind of basic but it's still valid and it might help someone else in the future. — Outlaw Programmer, Oct 01 '08 at 16:58
`` is an opening tag and `` is a closing tag. `` is opening&closing tag (so called self-closing). You should not use a closing tag without opening tag. — jumxozizi, Nov 30 '16 at 14:38

score 66 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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You're looking for   instead of 

Self closing tags such as br have the slash at the end of the tag.

Here are the other self-closing tags in XHTML:

What are all the valid self-closing tags in XHTML (as implemented by the major browsers)?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

Community

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answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:37

Jason Navarrete

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score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 31 '14 at 11:47

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If you are trying to put space between two divs and   is not working then insert this code (between the divs) to get the   tag working.

<div class="clear"></div>

and add

.clear {
    clear: both;
}

in your css file.

answered Oct 31 '14 at 11:47

Kunal Kumar

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score 11 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 13 '18 at 03:35

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The br tag should be:

<br/>

edited Dec 13 '18 at 03:35

Alaa

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answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:37

andyuk

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score 11 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:37

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It should be   or   not 

answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:37

curtisk

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score 6 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:39

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IE7 is more forgiving of incorrect syntax in quirksmode.

Instead of   or  it should be  

answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:39

Adam Kinney

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score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:37

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That's because  is an invalid tag. What you want is  .

answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:37

Dan

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:51

should probably be used only if you are writing XHTML. If you use validator.w3.org to validate the following as HTML 4.01:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<br />
</p>
</body>
</html>

This warning is generated:

Line 8, Column 3: NET-enabling start-tag requires SHORTTAG YES.

<br />

The sequence can be interpreted in at least two different ways, depending on the DOCTYPE of the document. For HTML 4.01 Strict, the '/' terminates the tag '). However, since many browsers don't interpret it this way, even in the presence of an HTML 4.01 Strict DOCTYPE, it is best to avoid it completely in pure HTML documents and reserve its use solely for those written in XHTML.

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:36

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It should just be .

answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:36

nsanders

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will work, but is a legacy tag. You should use
instead. – pearcewg Oct 01 '08 at 16:39
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Depends on your DTD (Document Type Definition), pearcewg. It's perfectly valid in HTML 4.01 for instance. – cllpse Oct 01 '08 at 21:40

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:37

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You want or , not

answered Oct 01 '08 at 16:37

moonshadow

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You mean
or
- the latest standards are to use lower case for tags. – Ken Ray Oct 01 '08 at 16:55

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered May 31 '19 at 09:49

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If you are using struts set escapeXml="false"

answered May 31 '19 at 09:49

Thushara Buddhika

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered May 17 '21 at 15:19

It’s not , it’s   or  .

So, this doesn’t work as expected:

<!doctype html>
<html>
 <head>
  <title></title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p>
   Some text... </br>
   Some more text...
  </p>
  More content...
 </body>
</html>

But this works:

<!doctype html>
<html>
 <head>
  <title></title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <p>
   Some text... <br>
   Some more text... <br />
  </p>
  More content...
 </body>
</html>

score -3 · Answer 12 · edited Sep 15 '20 at 07:31

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Alternatively to   or   you can use  or 

edited Sep 15 '20 at 07:31

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answered Sep 15 '20 at 07:05

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not working in firefox and chrome

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