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Old 01-21-2014, 01:52 PM  
edgeprod
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Originally Posted by Sly View Post
<br> works fine.

People use other conventions because that's how they learned syntax. Hardly a "sheep" issue. It's a learning/syntax issue.
It actually doesn't. Self-closing tags need the / in the tag to signify that they are self-closing. Your HTML may "work" but it doesn't validate, which breaks some things that follow the appropriate spec. Definitely not a style choice -- one is right, and the other is wrong.
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