[Mediawiki-l] Forcing A Line Break

[Platonides]

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/>.
> 
> ~Daniel Friesen of The Gaiapedia and Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project

What's the point with autoclosing them? They'd have no meaning!