Double space at the end of line converts to <br></br> about markdown-js HOT 5 CLOSED

This causes an IE bug. For whatever reason IE interprets <br></br> as <br/><br/>. Note the position of /.

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I'm running markdown-js under Node and get

in plain HTML. It looks like two linebreaks in FF 3.6.10 and in Chrome 6.0.472.62 under openSUSE 11.3.

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Sorry, I'd found cause.
XHTM doctype must be used with generated HTML.

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It's still an issue in IE, regardless of doc type.

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The reason for this is that the <br> tag is empty, so when the browser reaches the second <br> tag, it isn't inside a <br> element. So it infers a <br> element so it can close it. I'd be very surprised if this weren't enshrined in the evolving HTML5 parsing algorithm.

To me, it is not okay that markdown-js generates incorrect HTML for this case, even if it's correct XHTML, because I put its results into HTML documents, not XHTML documents. Can we reopen this issue?

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