Thread:NightFalcon9004/@comment-23771723-20160410022956/@comment-23771723-20160410032739

For &#60;br> and &#60;br />: This is a self-closing tag, meaning that it doesn't need a second tag to close it. For instance, if you want to make text bold, you'd use &#60;b> to open and &#60;/b> to close. But break tags don't need that. The slash identifies it as a self-closing tag and acts as a way of closing it without a separate tag. (Fun thing that just happened: when I switched to source view on this reply, and switched back to visual and back gain to source, it automatically changed my &#60;br> to &#60;br />.)

For the closing curly brackets on infoboxes, the main reason is clarity. When it's on the previous line, it's easy to miss, and that can lead to coding mistakes, such as someone putting information for the field on the outside of the closing brackets, or adding a new field below the closing brackets. For coders, when you have an open tag, you want to see the closing tag easily to know where a section ends. It's also just technically not part of the previous line, so there's no reason to group it with that field (the "length" field, on the musical template).

Hope that helps!