alt Hacker NewsIt 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.
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.
It doesn't indicate that, though. If you write <div />, for example, the content that follows is inside of the tag. So the reader still needs to remember how HTML works, because the slash does nothing.