I'm sorry Timmy but you're not allowed to have any dessert unless you close your tags like I taught you. Your grandmother was XMLish and you need to carry on our family tradition.

I thought you might do something like this so I got you a backup one from AO3.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (15 children)

🤓 ackshually that’s not the HTML spec. Void elements should not have trailing slashes.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Void_element

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (12 children)

> Clicks on <br>
> Example is <br />

The actual thing that matters is that the / is ignored so (unlike with XML I believe) you can't self-close a non-void element by adding a trailing /. But "void elements should not have trailing slashes" is extrapolation on your part; the trailing slash improves readability and is kosher since it doesn't act as a self-close.

[–] dukk 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Trailing slash lets you do this though:

For example, in the case of <div/>Some text, browsers interpret this as <div>Some text</div>, treating the slash as ignored and considering the div element to encapsulate the text that follows.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

This is terrible.

You should never rely on a browser interpreting a non standard use in a specific way. It can change at any moment, and wouldn’t be reliably reversed because it’s inherently non standard.