When I hit ctrl+enter the editor replies with <br />.
This is great when you make xhmtl pages, but not as good for plain html pages.
How can I tell the editor to put a simple <br>?
I'm using phped 5.0 build 5023.

AFAIK <br /> works for HTML as well, it is just that XHTML mandates the slash whereas HTML doesn't.

Of course you are right. All of the current browsers are xhtml capable and do not bother about the space and slash.
But there are still older browsers. In the preferences it is marked as "<br>", but it issues a "<br />".

How can I change it?

DON'T support older browsers This way they die faster and we will have easier life without need to bother them.

Ok, ok. I can see the big picture.

But - I do not like <br />s. I really do like <br>s much, much more.

I will not insist any more. It is okay.

Well.

Complain to the W3C about their XHTML specification.

What's wrong the spec?

He was responding to Knito who had said:

I'll note that you can continue to use <br> even in XHTML. Of course, you have to pair it with a </br>

That said, if you're editing an HTML document, the editor should insert <br>, not <br />, since the latter is, I believe, invalid in an HTML document (although most browsers will accept it). Unfortunately, I've not done any HTML/XHTML editing in PhpED recently (all back-end work right now), so I can't comment on what it actually does. Where's the mentioned preference?

well, it all depends on your declared Doctype. I think it would EXTREMELY difficult for PhpEd to try to parse through your project and figure out where your doctype has been declared and then adjust itself to that type.

That's why I suggested a mode switch here:

xhtml-shortcut-inserts-t2960.html

It's not perfect since some projects can use both, but I think it would take care of the majority of situations. And if you added in support for auto-switching the mode in the presence of in-document DOCTYPEs, I think most situations would be handled.

OR, if you could set up in the properties of the project or the page the intended Doctype output, the IDE could use that as an indicator of which structure of elements it should be using.