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Peta Started conversation Jun 5, 1999
I posted an article on cookies. It looks ok - but when I preview it - it repeats twice. I have used a bit of html - so thats obviously the problem, but do you know what in html does this doubling up? I have looked at it - but can't see anything obvious. I must read my html book more carefully. Groan its about 4 ft thick. Thanks in advance.
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StevenR Posted Jun 6, 1999
This happens because H2G2 uses XML instead of HTML. XML is more fussy about tags being closed.
For example: every <P> must have a </P>.
If this is is not done then the text can get repeated.
If you want to use a single tag like a <BR> then add a / at the end like <BR/> which is the format XML uses for unclosed tags.
The same applies to <IMG> tags (e.g <IMG SRC="filename"/>
I hope this helps.
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