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[SOLVED] Content field <br /> tags render as <br> tags when viewing in browser

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SnowBoarder82

Community Member, 57 Posts

14 January 2014 at 4:37pm

Edited: 14/01/2014 4:50pm

Hi Guys,

I've got a bit of a problem occuring which is stopping my HTML from Validating.
The <br /> tags are being rendered without their self closing tags "/" when viewing the actual page in the browser (Using FF).
While in the CMS and viewing the HTML source (through the TinyMCE editor) it shows the correct closing tags, puzzling that it changes when the actual page is rendered...

Using SS3.1.2

Addition: The same thing is happening for <img> tags in the content section as well.

Any Clues?

Thank you,

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SnowBoarder82

Community Member, 57 Posts

21 January 2014 at 5:29pm

Solution: The problem is to do with the declared Doctype of my template. I had an XHTML Transitional doctype as opposed to HTML5
My assumption is that SS3+ renders (for lack of a better term) the content from htmleditor fields etc (for example the Content section) as HTML5.

HTML5 apparently accepts <br> as valid code whereas an XHTML doctype will not - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1946426/html-5-is-it-br-br-or-br

Thanks,

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