Why is the

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For curiosities sake, why is the <img> tag not closed in HTML?

Answer 1

The tag represents what is known as a void element (see HTML5 spec), so called because it can't have any contents (unlike, say or

). Therefore there is no syntactic reason why it should need to be closed in HTML.

XHTML, however, is based on XML, where every tag needs to be closed.

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