Closing Tags

[ishnar]

Hey,

I'm trying to update an old mod and I'm trying to get it organized in the text editor so I can better see what's going on, but closing tags are annoying me.

</page> seems to be used completely arbitrarily. I've opened some core files to compare here's an example from the bottom lines of mainhud.player

<Page AbsorbsInput="false" .....
<Page AbsorbsInput="false" Background....
<Page AbsorbsInput="false" Background ....
</Page>
</page> (Last line of file)

I really don't see why the top <page> gets closed but the middle two do not.

I know when HTML first came out that the standard didn't require closing tags for everything, and failure to close <p> tags and such is still supported. Is this just a case where the client forgot to add the closing tags? So I can do it myself--to my custom file--for my own peace of mind?

Thanks.

[Zonx]

Standard XML...

<Page>
</Page>

Is the same as

<Page />

The later can be used when an object does not contain other objects. This applies to anything.

<Button></Button>

can be written as

<Button />

If it doesn't contain a text value.

Note: the extra space is not required so <Page/> also works.

[ishnar]

ahh, thanks. Now it's so much clearer!