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Originally Posted by thiago.eec
For a scene break I think the correct tag would be <hr/>.
I use <div/> for separators (a line below a chapter title, for example). This is just decorative and you should not use a <hr/> tag, since it means a thematic break in HTML5.
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Yes, I wrote a lot about this. See the discussion in:
especially posts #128 and beyond. Me + Hitch went breaking down pros/cons of "<hr/> as scenebreaks".
Personally, I just use simple, centered asterisks. Not relying on CSS3 or complicated overrides (these will fail across many older readers/devices).
Side Note: The one nice thing about <hr/> in HTML5 is it generates a new <section> in the Accessibility Tree.
I described some of that in post #148 of that thread. This would allow a screen reader to easily jump between scenes (or sections of an article) without the need for extra markup.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
There is no how or why  In EPUB you dont have HTMl you have XHTML which is XML. In XML *any* tag can be self closing, regardless of whether it is useful or not. |
EPUB3 is HTML5... and in HTML, you can do all this really funky/obscure stuff.
Like I remember running across a Sigil "bug" with:
(It was a bad search/replace I did.)
Sigil would completely crash with Reports, Spellcheck Lists, etc., but other things like Preview worked fine...
KevinH dug into this, and turns out, it's actually "valid" (but VERY horrible) HTML5. I convinced KevinH to match Calibre's parsing of this, by changing it into an underscore:
so at least things would still work. Then epubcheck can warn you about non-standard tags at a later date.
Note: EPUB2 is XHTML1.1, and EPUB3... many tools like Sigil/Calibre conform to
XHTML5—accepting HTML5's new tags, but still enforcing XHTML's stricter rules... like always closing your tags and using quotes around your attributes.
This is just good practice, and I have no idea why you'd NOT want to use XHTML5.