Can I use </br> instead of <br/> ?

Question

May that cause some problems using XHTML?

Answer 1

based on current w3c recommendations just <br> should be used

Answer 2

No, there is no </br>, incorrect syntax.

Answer 3

</br> has sense within xml context. It's interesting that some html browsers treat </br> as <br>, while other just ignore this.

Answer 4

HTML5 standard is <br>.
However, Ract.js is <br />, closing tag is required for every tags in React.js

Answer 5

FYI - br and b are not the same thing

probably a typo though

Answer 6

"<br/>" is the same as "<br></br>".