Optional Closing Tags in HTML

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  • My_Donna
    Junior Member
    • Mar 2007
    • 1
    #1

    Optional Closing Tags in HTML

    For as long as I've been validating web pages, I never realized that the closing </head> tag was optional in HTML. I feel as if I've missed the boat at times.

    While I'm all for trimming excess code, I just cannot for the life of me strip out closing tags because they are optional in HTML. I'd be concerned that something, somewhere would not parse the document correctly if I removed the closing </head> element.

    Are my concerns unfounded?
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    • Guest
      #2
      closing tags in html is option but it's compulsory in xhtml. I too didn't realize that closing tag was optional. But I don't feel like I missed anything because I would have always opted to use it even if it was not required.
      Last edited by megri; 08-26-2008, 01:05 PM.

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        • newmath071
          Junior Member
          • Aug 2008
          • 1
          #3
          if you've open tag it should be closed , if you hadn't open it you can write other code ... you can simply write code without head and body tags in HTML but in xHTML it's strict rule

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            • Kuruk
              Junior Member
              • Jul 2008
              • 9
              #4
              Hi


              I think XHTML is very strict about its tag rather than html.
              some HTML optional tags are write below.
              * </area>
              * </base>
              * <body>
              * </body>
              * </br>
              * </col>
              * </colgroup>
              * </dd>
              * </dt>
              * <head>
              * </head>
              * </hr>
              * <html>
              * </html>
              * </img>
              * </input>
              * </li>
              * </link>
              * </meta>
              * </option>
              * </p>
              * </param>
              * <tbody>
              * </tbody>
              * </td>
              * </tfoot>
              * </th>
              * </thead>
              * </tr>

              thanks

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                • kamal12
                  Junior Member
                  • Jul 2008
                  • 2
                  #5
                  new closing tags

                  I just cannot for the life of me strip out closing tags because they are optional in HTML. I'd be concerned that something, somewhere would not parse the document correctly if I removed

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                    • Guest
                      #6
                      <head> tag is very important because it contain the following tags can be added to the head section: <base>, <link>, <meta>, <script>, <style>, and <title>.

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