Comment by barnabee
11 hours ago
It’s much easier to have to remember fewer rules and for things to be ok if you get some wrong, yes.
Especially for casual users of HTML.
11 hours ago
It’s much easier to have to remember fewer rules and for things to be ok if you get some wrong, yes.
Especially for casual users of HTML.
Bad reasoning.
“Always close your tags” is a simpler rule (and fewer rules, depending how you count) than “Close your tags, except possibly in situations A, B, C…”.
I've been closing my tags for 30 years and I assume that I will for the rest of my days. I like that it validates as XML. Historically I used XSLT a LOT.
It triggers the linters so often. I shall keep my <input> tag open.
But learning about self closing tags is an additional rule
<script /> is invalid HTML, and <img></img> is also invalid HTML. There's no way to avoid knowing HTML syntax.