[whatwg] self-closing tags in html5

Boris Zbarsky bzbarsky at MIT.EDU
Sun Sep 26 13:18:17 PDT 2010


On 9/26/10 4:12 PM, William F Hammond wrote:
> For example, while it is true that major browsers seem to treat "<p/>"
> as an open tag, the relevant question for backward comptatibility is
> whether anyone has been relying on the idea that "<p/>" can be used to
> begin a non-empty paragraph.

Sites rely on that, yes.

-Boris



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