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Asked: 2026-05-17T00:15:28+00:00

Are XHTML style close tags valid in HTML? What I mean is, in XHTML

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Are XHTML style close tags valid in HTML? What I mean is, in XHTML we use <link href="style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />. Is this valid in HTML? or should I be using <link href="style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"></link>?

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    They are invalid in HTML4 for the LINK element.

    Start tag: required, End tag: forbidden

    But XML-style tags as in your question are valid in HTML5:

    Authors may optionally choose to use this same syntax for void elements in the HTML syntax as well.

    Basically, HTML5 allows XML/XHTML style markup. That’s the nice thing of HTML5. You aren’t forced to serve XHTML as application/xml+html which would only cause IE to havoc. Just serve it as text/html with a <!DOCTYPE html> in top of the page and you’re safe.

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