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minus7 on July 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The case against self-closing tags in HTML

`<div />` getting parsed as opening tag instead of self closing is a bug (be it in the browser or in the spec) and should be fixed

pornel on July 6, 2023 | [–]

It's been fixed. Send Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml and it will be parsed as an empty tag. But nobody brothers to turn that on. Without an opt-in it's unfixable due to backward compatibility.

the_mitsuhiko on July 6, 2023 | [–]

Why would it be a bug in the spec? “/“ is just a parsing error in html and is ignored.

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