Re: Self closing tag error message

> On Sep 28, 2022, at 5:08 PM, Jon Storslee <jon.storslee@paradisevalley.edu> wrote:
> 
> I started internally closing the tags to maintain compliance with the XHTML standard.  I can't seem to find any notice about no longer using the internal closure.

There's a note in the ChangeLog:

https://github.com/validator/validator/commit/c02589ca56c99e7706a0cb7ece9edbaf0801d49e

The stat counters (https://validator.w3.org/nu/stats.html) seems to indicate that self-closing tags are only used in ~7% of site checked, but I would guess the use is much more prevalent in the wild. For example, the front page of the validator itself!

https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fvalidator.w3.org%2F

- Chuck

Received on Thursday, 29 September 2022 16:36:30 UTC