Self-closing tags (void elements) in HTML5

Question

Step 6 of 8.1.2.1 Start tags of the HTML5 spec says that void elements may have a single / character. I think this is so it\'s easier to migrate sites

Answer 1

Mostly it depends if you want to go the XML route or not. Both should render correctly, as the HTML5 spec does not require self-closing tags - their only reason is that the document is then valid XML.

The easier way is to probably just write then without the self-closing "/", unless there's a specific need to get the markup parsed as XML - in that case you also need