Horizontal Rules
Last update on: 05-18-2008The hr tag, which has no closing tag in HTML and no text associated with it, creates a horizontal line on the page. Rule lines are used to visually separate sections of a web page just before headings, for example, or to separate body text from a list of items.The <hr> tag has no closing tag in HTML. To convert this tag to XHTML and to ensure compatibility with HTML browsers, add a space and a forward slash to the end of the tag:
</hr>
If the horizontal line has attributes associated with it, the forward slash still appears at the end of the tag, as shown in the following examples:
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