To quote or not to quote...

When you program in HTML, you often have to specify parameters in certain tags, such as:

<HR WIDTH=80%>

If you code by hand, you might sometimes decide to leave out the quotes around the parameter values such as 80% in the above example. Although most browsers will excuse this, it is incorrect not to place quotes around values that aren't plain numeric values.
For example

<HR WIDTH = 500>

is correct, however the following is incorrect:

<HR WIDTH = 80%>

because, the latter contains a non-numeric character -- "%" Following is the proper way to specify your HTML parameters:

<HR WIDTH = "80%">

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