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HTML How to Make a Website Creating HTML Content Structure the Image Gallery

Posted by thatguyhelps
thatguyhelps
Courses Plus Student 845 Points

Closing the Image tag

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the image tag be closed like this:

<img />

If so, why wasn't it closed like this in the video?

1 Answer

krilnon
krilnon
1,458 Points

Self-closing tags, the syntactic style you used, were the norm in the XHTML days. In HTML5, I believe that most people consider the implicitly-self-closing tag style <img> to be preferable. Browsers are okay with either, although I'm not sure off of the top of my head whether or not XHTML-style self-closing tags are now deprecated... I still use them.

thatguyhelps
thatguyhelps
Courses Plus Student 845 Points

Okay, that makes sense. I greatly appreciate the response. Thank you!