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There are certain doctypes that need the closing tag /> and there are others that need just a >.
For example, <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
or <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" >
How is this with HTML5? Is it anything I need to consider?
Tags that have an opening and closing tag (anchors, span, divs, etc) don’t need a /> because the / is in the closing tag.
Tags that stand alone (br, hr, img, etc.) are supposed to have a /> now.
As far as I understand, it’s not necessary, but was put in play for HTML5 for the sake of consistency with XML and XHTML.
I have read that you should put a space before the /> as to not confuse older browsers.