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The compiler flag that time forgot
It's not parsed as a block of some kind. The standalone <br> is parsed as it should be, without surprises. The closing tag, however, is parsed as
another
<br> tag. This is usual HTML behaviour, though, and since HTML 5 thoroughly specified.
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