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Read this:-
http://tiffanybbrown...f-closing-tags/
and then wade though this extremely long W3C HTML5 working draft:-
http://dev.w3.org/ht...normal-elements
and notice that it uses > without a space/slash:-

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="20; URL=page4.html">
<hr>
<p><img src="carouge.svg" alt="The coat of arms depicts a lion, sitting in front of a tree."></p>
<p>P. Sherman<br>
42 Wallaby Way<br>
Sydney</p>

but note that the <p> is closed with </p> whereas in old HTML the </p> could be omitted and only > used. HTML5 spec says "A p element's end tag may be omitted [ just > instead of the full end tag </p> ] if the p element is immediately followed by an address, article, aside, blockquote, dir, div, dl, fieldset, footer, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, header, hgroup, hr, menu, nav, ol, p, pre, section, table, or ul, element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an a element."

hr img and br are not shown with a space/slash.

I don't use self-closing tags like

<p>The coat of arms depicts a lion, sitting in front of a tree. />

but it seems that these are allowed (for meta tags too, I suppose). I haven't really got my head around where closed tags, unclosed tags and self-closed tags can be used and what happens in older browsers like IE7 or IE8. Personally, I've gone back to html4 type coding for html5 with <br> etc. HTML5 is still in draft and an experimental feature but it can be used (with a little risk I suppose that some things may change).

I added a .htaccess file in my public_html directory because some of my images were being used, and the hotlinking protection works well (I tested from another domain, while my domains are listed as exceptions).

However, when I send an html email with an image from the same domain server the hotlinking protection works to sustitute another image, but I don't want it to work in my email!

I think this is because although the php procees file is inside the public_html directory, the mail function must be using the mail directory which is outside the public_html directory.

Do you think I can add the same .htaccess file to the mail directory? I used the server cPanel menu to add the file inside the public_html directory but it didn't add another in the mail directory, so I don't know whether it's possible.