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Comment by immibis

9 months ago

It's sometimes done to make the same markup compatible with XHTML, without harming its interpretation in HTML.

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assimpleaspossi  9 months ago

You are either running XHTML or you are not. No need to carry any compatibility overhead. I doubt he is serving XHTML.

  • ThunderSizzle  9 months ago

    I personally prefer <input /> if only to stop other developers to not try doing <input>content </input>.

    • pests  9 months ago

      There are other tags you can omit the closing tag but yet the opening tag shouldn’t be self-closed.

        <ol>
    <li>one
    <li>two
  </ol>

      I think even the final closing ol can be omitted as there are rules to auto close elements when encountering tags that don’t make sense in context.

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