According to W3 Validator, self-closing tag syntax in text/html documents is widely discouraged.
So the correct format is:
<meta charset="utf-8">
Not
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
and
<link rel="stylesheet" href="blocks.css">
Not
<link rel="stylesheet" href="blocks.css"/>
How do I set this as the default format in Pinegrow?
If I make edits outside Pinegrow (ie BBedit) Pinegrow changes them back to the discouraged format.
Hi !
Same problem with other tags such as “img” or “br” line breaks, it is true that by default in pinegrow, the tag closes in “/>” format and not “>” according to the new recommendations of the W3C (September, 21), it’s very recent and it’s moreover quite disputed in the community because the format “/>” is more readable in the code especially for the novices, finally this is what emerges from it.
That would explain it. Hadn’t realised the change until I ran my site through the W3 Validator.
I’m assuming it’s not going to break anything browser wise for the foreseeable future?
Good evening, to answer your questions, this is only my opinion, the W3C tool indicates that “/>” is not an error in itself, it’s a possible bad interaction with attribute values without quotes in the tag. In fact we have no choice, when opening a page with Pinegrow, the “/>” choice is imposed in the HTML code. I don’t know if the Pinegrow team will come up with a solution to have a choice between with “/>” and without. In any case, I don’t think you have any impact in the execution of the pages in the browser or bad results as speed, SEO etc.