I wasn’t sure whether I needed to close my meta<\/tt> tags in HTML5. And br<\/tt> tags, for that matter. People call them one-off tags, unpaired tags, self-closing, monotags, bachelor tags, among others.<\/p>\n
They’re called void elements.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to W3C<\/a>, the void elements are: area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr.<\/p>\n Under “8.1.2 Elements”:<\/p>\n Void elements can’t have any contents (since there’s no end tag, no content can be put between the start tag and the end tag).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Under “8.1.2.1 Start tags” it says:<\/p>\n Then, if the element is one of the void elements, or if the element is a foreign element, then there may be a single “\/” (U+002F) character. This character has no effect on void elements, but on foreign elements it marks the start tag as self-closing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n So, “\/>” has no effect on a meta tag. Or any other void element. But it is not invalid to put it there.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wasn’t sure whether I needed to close my meta tags in HTML5. And br tags, for that matter. People call them one-off tags, unpaired tags, self-closing, monotags, bachelor tags, among others. They’re called void elements. According to W3C, the … Continue reading \n
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