alt Hacker NewsHow does the slash make it clearer? It's totally inert, so if you try to do the same thing with a non-void tag the results will not be what you expect!
How does the slash make it clearer? It's totally inert, so if you try to do the same thing with a non-void tag the results will not be what you expect!
It indicates that the content that follows is not inside of the tag without the reader needing to remember how HTML works. Tags should have either a self-closing slash, or a closing tag.
The third way of a bare tag is where the confusion comes from.