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Old 01-25-2014, 11:06 AM   #85
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Originally Posted by unboggling View Post
I'm confused.

I'm not much good with html and usually don't fix books by messing with html tags, but I would've thought I'd want most of those <br> tags replaced with </p><p>

I thought <br> didn't have a closing tag? Or is <br/> an alternate form of <br> ?

First, in XHTML all tags need to be closed. So <br> becomes <br />

Now the search string I use is to find a break <br> followed by lowercase alphabetic. That will indicate a break that is not a paragraph marker but just someone putting the hard return because they want the line to "look pretty" lol.

I use regex often in searching for patterns that indicate the line end is not a paragraph end before I put in the paragraphs,
<br> is (like <hr> ) assumed closure (there was no </br> and probably made parsing into a headache as html evolved

<br /> is proper
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