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In the MVC 3 Razor template for the Telerik Extensions for MVC (latest release), there's a script tag in the Shared View called _Layout.cshtml that has a full close tag like this:
and the template does work and the Home and About pages appear correctly. However, if you just edit the full close tag to the abbreviated close tag like this:
the Home and About pages NO longer appear.
Consistent with my style conventions, I would like to believe that I could replace any full close tag with the abbreviated close tag form on an element that has empty content. But apparently not!
I believe it's a bug. Or if it's intentional behavior, then could somebody explain why it's necessary?
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.4.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
and the template does work and the Home and About pages appear correctly. However, if you just edit the full close tag to the abbreviated close tag like this:
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.4.min.js")" type="text/javascript" />
the Home and About pages NO longer appear.
Consistent with my style conventions, I would like to believe that I could replace any full close tag with the abbreviated close tag form on an element that has empty content. But apparently not!
I believe it's a bug. Or if it's intentional behavior, then could somebody explain why it's necessary?
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Hello Carl,
Rosen
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Indeed this is expected behavior. As you may know script tags cannot be self closing but only full closing.
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answered on 31 Jan 2011, 04:48 PM
Hhhhmmm... how annoying and inconsistent.... and it may be "expected" in one sense but not in another. So far I have not yet found the formal specification that says it is not possible. I have found some discussion that attributes problems to the doctype declaration, etc. Here's a link for some discussion:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/97522/what-are-all-the-valid-self-closing-tags-in-xhtml-as-implemented-by-the-major-br
Seems like the safest approach is to AVOID any self-closing tags whether for script, div, or any other at risk tags... so as not to worry about whether the doctype declaration.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/97522/what-are-all-the-valid-self-closing-tags-in-xhtml-as-implemented-by-the-major-br
Seems like the safest approach is to AVOID any self-closing tags whether for script, div, or any other at risk tags... so as not to worry about whether the doctype declaration.