Uhm, no it shouldn’t… you have a valid URL, it’s going to go to that URL and not on the current page. good lord, WHY would you want it to do that?!?
When the submit fires it will reload the URL, even if it’s the current one. What you are asking for doesn’t even make sense (and really has nothing to do with PHP either, this is a HTML question).
Yer right on that, good catch – it should be the LAST of those you listed, but this:
That is NOT valid – EVER, even in XHTML – because A is not a “empty element” – only empty elements can use the /> closing.
… and just because the anchor has no content doesn’t mean it’s an ‘empty element’ – empty elements by the meaning in the specification are those that CANNOT have content, as opposed to those that simply don’t have content… meaning the valid “empty elements” which are eligble for the “short form” closing are:
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