On Wednesday 10 December 2008 06:55:57 Niko Sams wrote:
> 2008/12/9 Kevin Martin <ktmdms@gmail.com>:
> > <a href="adasdfasdf" ><img src="asdasdfd"/></a>
> > then my alignment works but, of course, my img link does not.
>
> why does your img not work?
>
> the closing tag is only needed for XHTML but afaik doesn't any harm for
> HTML.
>
>
> Niko
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This is partially true.  In HTML 4.01 it is perfectly "valid" to use the 
SHORTTAG form, however, it is not reccomended since not all browsers 
recognise it properly.

For instance *all* of the following are valid HTML 4.01.

<p><a href="abcd.html" ><img src="abcd.png" alt="abcd" / </a></p>

<p><a href="abcd.html" ><img src="abcd.png" alt="abcd" / </></p>

<p><a href="abcd.html" ><img src="abcd.png" alt="abcd" / </>

<p><a href=abcd.html ><img src=abcd.png alt=abcd / </>

In this case there is a difference between code that is valid and that which 
is good practice.  The last example also misses out quotation marks which is 
also valid, but bad practice since simply inserting something such as a ? in 
the file name would render the document invalid.

Good practice would be to use the following:

<p><a href="abcd.html" ><img src="abcd.png" alt="abcd"> </a></p>

and avoid the shorttag form altogether.

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