Re: [Lynx-dev] parsing </br>

[Thomas Dickey]

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| Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 10:53:57 AM
| Subject: [Lynx-dev] parsing </br>
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| https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/magazine/poem-the-nod.html
| has </br> instead of <br> (all their poem pages in the Sunday
| magazine
| do - because they put the breaks at the end of the line?).  lynx
| doesn't break the line for </br>.
|       Did anyone else read about HTML making stand-alone tags have
| /s?

not exactly - as I recall it that's an XHTML feature.
(if you'd like to add to the XHTML support in Lynx, a short patch would be 
nice).

See this for example

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/br

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