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Selfclosing <a> breaks XML parsing?

kirederf Total Posts: 10 Joined: 2008-01-30 Ignore user	Hi there, I have a very strange issue with the following syntax: `<a class="last_item" /> <br class="clearer" />` In Firefox on Mac this breaks my markup and is resulting in this: `<a class="last_item"> <br class="clearer"> </a>` From this point the <a> element shows up everywhere in my markup even though I defined it just once.... The error is ownly visible in generated source code via Firebug not in “normal” source-code view of the page. Is this caused by the XML-parsing of magento or do I miss something else? Regards Frederik Edit: I use the code in one of my phtml files. In templates/page/html/header.phtml
	Posted: March 7 2008 \| top

iblastoff Total Posts: 252 Joined: 2007-08-31 Ignore user	what the heck is “<a class="last_item" />” ??? Signature stevelam.ca \| xpattern.net
	Posted: March 7 2008 \| top \| # 1

kirederf Total Posts: 10 Joined: 2008-01-30 Ignore user	`<div id="main-nav"> <a class="bc_blue" href="<?=$this->getBaseUrl()."something1";?>">Something1</a> <a class="bc_blue" href="<?=$this->getBaseUrl()."something2";?>">Something2</a> <a class="bc_blue" href="<?=$this->getBaseUrl()."something3";?>">Something3</a> <a class="last_item" /> <br class="clearer" /> </div>` It’s the end of a link list used to attach a different background image.
	Posted: March 7 2008 \| top \| # 2

Mark_Kimsal Total Posts: 186 Joined: 2007-09-12 Michigan, USA Ignore user	Self closing anchor tags are not legal in HTML, only in XHTML. But I can guarantee you that you are not using XHTML. Just because you write your HTML as XHTML does not trigger any browser to render your work as XHTML. I thought everybody knew this… The only way to get firefox to turn on xhtml rendering is to send a “Content-Type xhtml+xml” header. But, this doesn’t work in any other browser (konq, IE, safari, opera). For those you need to send “Content-Type: application/xml”. Plus, for IE you need to include an XSL sheet that converts your true XML (application/xml) into XHTML locally on the browser. Another reason why I’m pretty sure you’re not using XHTML. If ever there is any error anywhere in the entire document (like a bad product description, malicious, malformed user reviews) the entire page fails to render and you’re left with 1 giant error pointing you to the line and column that is incorrect. You’d probably be locked out of the page that would even allow you to fix such “bad” input from the admin screen. XHTML is a joke and it doesn’t work. I seriously thought I was the last person to figure this out.
	Posted: March 7 2008 \| top \| # 3

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