Yep, the HTML5 spec has an agreed on way to parse and interpret invalid HTML, so all modern browsers should handle it pretty consistently. I was more intereste

Yep, the HTML5 spec has an agreed on way to parse and interpret invalid HTML, so all modern browsers should handle it pretty consistently. I was more interested in finding out where this style had come from really, because I've seen a lot of devs doing something similar and semantically it's just always struck me as a bit odd looking!