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hobnail · 11-12-2021, 11:25 PM

Many tags that you see as a begin and end pair can also be given as the singular with the slash at the end. For example, I tried all of these and none gave an error with EpubCheck.

Code:

<p/>
<em/>
<b/>
<span/>
<body/>

As for why, I agree with Tex2002ans, you could use them with a class and a css combinator. (I'd be interested to see useful examples with the em and b singular tags because I can't think of any at the moment.)

Not related to this, but speaking of hr tags and combinators, in my stylesheet.css I have

Code:

hr + p {
  text-indent: 0;
}

So that paragraphs after an hr aren't indented. All of my p tags are naked/classless.

11-12-2021, 11:25 PM	#6
hobnail Running with scissors Posts: 1,590 Karma: 14328510 Join Date: Nov 2019 Device: none	Many tags that you see as a begin and end pair can also be given as the singular with the slash at the end. For example, I tried all of these and none gave an error with EpubCheck. Code: <p/> <em/> <b/> <span/> <body/> As for why, I agree with Tex2002ans, you could use them with a class and a css combinator. (I'd be interested to see useful examples with the em and b singular tags because I can't think of any at the moment.) Not related to this, but speaking of hr tags and combinators, in my stylesheet.css I have Code: hr + p { text-indent: 0; } So that paragraphs after an hr aren't indented. All of my p tags are naked/classless. Last edited by hobnail; 11-12-2021 at 11:28 PM.