text: what's up with the slash in br tags? when i learned html, i learned to type a line break tag like this:  but lately i have seen some documents use it this way:  what is up with the slash? i noticed that dreamweaver makes them this way. in fact all the tag should be closed, all your  should be followed by a  but it doesn"t make much sense so you've got the  that means  to open and close the tag all at once... makes it easier and "correct" html wise...