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June 28, 2024
Question

space before slash in self-closing HTML tags

  • June 28, 2024
  • 11 replies
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This is a dumb question—let me acknowledge that right out of the gate. I hope it's an easy one to answer.

My team is three technical writers, each on a different version of RoboHelp, which you don't have to tell me is a bad idea:

  • 2022.3
  • 2020.x
  • 2020.x+1

My hope is we can all get up to 2022.3 (not .4; there's {probably} a bug that interferes with our Git > Bitbucket workflow) soon, after the dust settles from our current quarterly release madness.

In the meantime, here is a "duck season! wabbit season!" fight going on about spaces in self-closing tags. 2022 puts them in: <br /> and 2020 takes them out: <br/>

Is it definitely due to running different versions of the app, or is there a settings file somewhere that we could tweak? Thank you for your attention to this silly but still mildly annoying issue.

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Community Expert
    June 28, 2024

    Pretty sure that's a version artefact going on there. Never heard of any preferences for something like that.