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Asked: May 20, 20262026-05-20T23:58:51+00:00 2026-05-20T23:58:51+00:00

Rails 3 uses a default DOCTYPE of HTML 5: <!DOCTYPE html> except a few

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Rails 3 uses a default DOCTYPE of HTML 5:

<!DOCTYPE html>

except a few lines below, it has

<meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"/>

I thought the HTML syntax is never to have the self-closing tags? (only XHTML/XML uses that, no?)

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    2026-05-20T23:58:53+00:00Added an answer on May 20, 2026 at 11:58 pm

    in HTML5, it is actually compliant to have self closing tags on void element such as meta, img, input, etc.

    Ref: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#start

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