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Tidy: missing </...>
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Cause:
A closing tag is missing. Most HTML tags need to be closed, though the exact set of tags varies according to which DTD you're using. For example, in HTML 4.01, the <img> tag does not need to be closed. In XHTML 1.0 and higher, however, it needs to be closed with a trailing slash, as in <img />. Such tags are called "empty elements".
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Example 1 - Missing Closure (Normal)
 | <head><title>hello</head> |
 | <head><title>hello</title></head> |
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Example 2 - Missing Closure (Empty Elements)
| <img src="whatever.jpg" width="20" height="400" alt="Whatever"> |
| <img src="whatever.jpg" width="20" height="400" alt="Whatever" /> |
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Solution:
Add the closing tag. Usually the is the same as the opening tag. As noted above, however, XHTML requires some tags to be closed with a trailing slash. According to XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD, the following tags are "empty":
- <base />
- <meta />
- <link />
- <hr />
- <br />
- <basefont />
- <param />
- <img />
- <area />
- <input />
- <isindex />
- <col />
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References:
- HTML specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
