[Mediawiki-l] Forcing A Line Break

Brion Vibber brion at wikimedia.org
Thu May 31 14:31:41 UTC 2007


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Dantman wrote:
> MediaWiki actually automatically uses <br /> even when you use <br>. So 
> nicely enough, you can take the method which looks cleaner and still get 
> XHTML compliance.
> 
> T_T Now if MediaWiki only did something similar with that annoying XHTML 
> unsupported and HTML Depreciated <font/> tag. Same with <center/>.

Why would it? Those are 100% legal and supported XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
If and when we change our output to a different version of (X)HTML, the
necessary conversions would be performed.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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