On 31/07/07, Daniel Arnold arnomane@gmx.de wrote:
Hm well there is "<a href" too... ;-) But none likes writing it, wikisyntax is much easier (and causes less input errors).
Well, no, <a> is not a whitelisted HTML tag, so the MediaWiki sanitiser won't let it through.
The same is with br. There are several possibilities writing br. The correct one is <br /> but you can see <br> all around. A correct nice br has 6 characters. \ would be just two and there's no doubt about the syntax.
There's no "correct" case - <br> is fine in wiki text; it's sanitised to <br /> before being emitted in HTML, and of course, Tidy usually sorts out any other mess.
This is equal to a page break you can often find after a chapter in a book. In Wikipedia for example it is often used in order to clearly separate different article objects (for example navigation bars use it very often) or article some article chapters, where free flow of elements into the next chapter would cause layout confusion.
Semantically speaking, <br style="clear: both;" /> is not a page break; it's just a line break which happens to clear all preceding floats.
Rob Church