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Asked: 2026-05-25T14:07:13+00:00

In HTML5, do we still need the end slash like in XHTML? <img src="some_image.png"

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In HTML5, do we still need the end slash like in XHTML?

<img src="some_image.png" />

validator.w3.org didn’t complain if I dropped it, not even a warning. But some online documents seem to indicate the end slash is still required for tags such as img, link, meta, br, etc.

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    img tags are Void Elements so they do not need an end tag.

    Void elements
    area, base, br, col, command, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr

    …

    Void elements only have a start tag; end tags must not be specified for void elements.

    W3C | WHATWG

    That being said it’s not strict parsing in HTML5 so it won’t do any major harm.

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