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Asked: 2026-05-18T01:26:59+00:00

I am having a problem getting Haml to close br tags. I have tried

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I am having a problem getting Haml to close br tags. I have tried the following with no luck:

%br  
%br/

I expect this to result in <br />, but it always outputs as <br>, even with the slash character on the end. I have also tried adding the following options to application.rb (and I tried environment.rb)

Haml::Template.options[:autoclose] = ['meta', 'img', 'link', 'br', 'hr', 'input', 'area', 'param', 'col', 'base']

Am I missing something? I though Haml was supposed to autoclose these tags by default??

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ok, I found out the problem. Haml outputs HTML5 by default when using Rails 3. I didn’t realize that <br> was valid syntax in HTML5. I was trying to get this to pass the W3C semantic extractor, so I need <br /> instead. In order to get this to work, you will need to update the Haml options for autoclose and set it to xhtml. Drop this code into your application.rb inside the class.

    Haml::Template.options[:format] = :xhtml

    More info here:

    http://github.com/nex3/haml/issuesearch?state=closed&q=close#issue/155

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