| Why do some elements end with /> in XHTML pages? |
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Every XHTML element has to be closed so that the parser doesn't have to have special knowledge of each element in order to properly parse it. For instance, before XHTML, a naive parser might have thought that: <br> Meant that a br "block" had been opened, and that parser might wait around for a closing: </br> Which would never appear. Another good example of an "empty" element that needs a trailing slash to be XHTML compliant is the <img /> element. Elements that do have a closing element, such as <body>...</body>, should not have a / before the >.
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