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🤓 ackshually that’s not the HTML spec. Void elements should not have trailing slashes.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Void_element
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<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.Trailing slash lets you do this though:
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.