What do you call tags that need no ending tag?

Question

There are HTML tags, such as , and , that need no ending tag (,

Answer 1

HTML tags can be of two types. They are

1. Paired Tags

2. Unpaired Tags

Paired Tags:

A tag is said to be a paired tag if the text is placed between a tag and its companion tag. In paired tags, the first tag is referred to as Opening Tag and the second tag is referred to as Closing Tag.

Example: This text is in italics.

Note: Here is called opening tag. and is called closing tag.

Unpaired Tags:

An unpaired tag does not have a companion tag. Unpaired tags are also known as Singular or Stand-Alone Tags.

Example :
,

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etc. These tags does not require any companion tag.