Question

In a tag based language like HTML or XML, there are tags which close themselves without the use of a second tag:

<tag/>

Rather than this:

<tag></tag>

Is there a specific name for tags that close themselves?

Thanks! 🙂

Answer 1

The XML specification refers to them as empty-element tags.

Source:

Definition: An element with no content is said to be empty.] The
representation of an empty element is either a start-tag immediately
followed by an end-tag, or an empty-element tag. [Definition: An
empty-element tag takes a special form:]