Yes, it would do... The <br> tag is deprecated these days, and XHTML
compliance needs it to be self-closing.

<br />

answered my own question. I use the HtmlGenericControl, but I dont
pass a tag to the constructor and set the InnerHtml to "<br>".

 public class Html_br : HtmlGenericControl
 {
   public Html_br()
     : base("br")
   {
   base.InnerHtml = "<br>";
   }
 }

still does not seem right, since the documentation of the
HtmlContainerControl, which is the base class of HtmlGenericControl,
says:

"...Serves as the abstract base class for HTML server controls that
map to HTML elements that are required to have an opening and a
closing tag. ..."

<br> does not support the closing tag.

-Steve

Hi Steve,

There are few resolutions to the problem:

1. Depending on the browser caps you will get <br> or <br/>
public class HtmlBr : System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlControl
{
    protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
    {
        writer.WriteBreak();
    }
}

2. Insetad of deriving simply use LiteralControl

rendring for HTML 4.0
myContainer.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<br>"));
or for XHTML 1.0/1.1
myContainer.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<br/>"));

Please note you and Mark are both right because you're talking abount HTML
4.01 standard (<br>) and Mark is talking about XHTML <br/> (all tags must be
valid from XML point of view)

Regards

Milosz