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Asked: 2026-05-28T06:02:50+00:00

Question : If I close any html tag in this fashion (Including the id

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Question: If I close any html tag in this fashion (Including the id property):

<div id="tagid" >...more html
...
</div id="tagid" >

Will it affect the page, or won’t like it, or disrupt any W3C rules…how can I put it…will it affect in any way?

Why?: Simply personal preference.
Instead of writing additional comments next to the tag, I simply add the id to help me know WHAT tag is closed -The tag is closed any way, so I guess it won’t do anything (or so I think)

PS. FYI, I am a beginner

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  1. Editorial Team

    No this is not valid.

    While it might not break your code, it could!

    You should just use the comments

    </div> <!-- closing main content div -->

    After checking, this

    <div></div id="tagid" >

    breaks in the validator

    http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input

    Although not specifically mentioned as illegal, the HTML spec only mentions attributes as appearing within the start tag:

    Elements may have associated properties, called attributes, which may
    have values (by default, or set by authors or scripts).
    Attribute/value pairs appear before the final “>” of an element’s
    start tag. Any number of (legal) attribute value pairs, separated by
    spaces, may appear in an element’s start tag.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/intro/sgmltut.html#h-3.2.2

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