Re: HtmlHelper::div close tag?

The only real use for generating HTML with the helper is when you are
packaging markup from within a helper. Just manually write it in the
view.

On Feb 21, 7:20 am, Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit
<jeremybu...@classoutfit.com> wrote:
> I went down the whole Html->tag route once and then methodically went through and unpicked it; it just didn't make sense in 99.9% of all instances.
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> Jeremy Burns
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> On 21 Feb 2012, at 15:16:09, jeremyharris wrote:
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> > The reason is because $text is empty. HtmlHelper::div uses HtmlHelper::tag which documents that it will only print the starting tag if no text is within the tag. I personally don't like this behavior. That's why you'll see things like this in baked code
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> > echo $this->Html->tag('div', $post['Post']['name'].'&nbsp');
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> > A &nbsp; is appended just in case the value is empty, so to make sure it includes a closing tag. So at the very least you'll need something in there.
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