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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Structure the Image Gallery

Tobias Edwards
Tobias Edwards
14,458 Points
Posted by Tobias Edwards
Tobias Edwards
14,458 Points

Empty Elements General Question

Hello

Just quite a general question, both for the community and the developers of the series, shouldn't empty elements such as <img> and <meta> be <img /> and <meta />?

I know this style is not compulsory, but in the book I'm reading while learning from Treehouse: "HTML & CSS" by Jon Duckett, it teaches that empty elements are better written with a forward slash at the end, and otherwise is a bad habit.

What do you guys think?

Thank you for the fantastic tutorials, keep up the good work!

Tobias

1 Answer

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Just for clarity the elements we're talking about here are img and meta which are self closing tags

<img /> and <meta />?

Whether we should include the forward slash, I learn towards yes we should as it provides a clear separation between these and the rest of the tags in the specification. But if you are, be consistent, so add them for all self closing tags you use in your projects. :)