Visual Studio uses XHTML tag closing for HTML5 tags

Question

Whenever I type out tags that don\'t require an end tag, Visual Studio adds a forward slash to it, as if they were XHTML.

I think this is unclean and annoying, and I

Answer 1

What you could do is disable the auto closing tag option in Visual Studio.

Go to Tools >> Options >> Text Editor >> HTML >> Formatting

Uncheck the "Auto insert close tag" option.

This will now allow you to type
(for example) and it won't auto-complete it as