Using valid HTML 4.01 Strict with Django

I've found a similar question here, but I'm looki开发者_开发技巧ng for more general solutions.

As it is now, when Django generates anykind of HTML for you (this mainly happens when generating forms), it uses self-closing tags by default i.e. <br /> instead of <br>. <br /> is valid XHTML and I think HTML5 also, but it's not valid HTML4.

Is there any clean way to override this? Or is it better to write django sites in XHTML or HTML5 instead?

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There was a whole series of discussions on this when development for 1.2 kicked off, with a range of solutions proposed, but no general way forward was agreed.

But see Simon Willison's Django-HTML project for one possible solution.

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You can rewrite entirely the way django output HTML for you. E.G : for the form, you can :

• choose between output using table, p or li by using the property "as_xxx".
• print the form label by label, choosing the tag wrappers.
• use widget to define how a form piece will print to HTML.

Of course you need the new forms to do so, and there for use Django 1.X.