HTML 5: Is it , , or ?

Question

I\'ve tried checking other answers, but I\'m still confused — especially after seeing W3schools HTML 5 reference.

I thought HTML 4.01 was supposed to \"allow\" singl

Answer 1

Both
and
will do fine but I prefer
because it's slightly more logical. It is logical to expect a closing tag whenever there is an opening tag. Therefore your code is slightly easier to read if you don't use an opening tag when there isn't going to be a closing tag.

All browser (except possibly some very old ones that don't matter) will display both exactly the same. However,
is not xHTML complient.