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Asked: 2026-05-17T02:48:09+00:00

For example: <div/> instead of <div></div> . I did this and apparently the HTML5

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For example: <div/> instead of <div></div>.
I did this and apparently the HTML5 validator passed this as valid. I was wondering it this is actually true?

PS: I’m serving page as application/xhtml+xml

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    This is not valid HTML 5 (HTML does not allow shorttags, the equivalent HTML construct is a single opening div tag). It is valid XHTML 5, as it is valid XML.

    The reason why you might see this pass through a validator just fine is because of what you stated:

    PS: I’m serving page as application/xhtml+xml

    Which means that you tell the validator that it must treat your markup as XML. In other words your page is not HTML 5 at all.

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