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Did you know: Some closing HTML tags are optional?
- theandrewbailey 2y agoUseful for code-golfing HTML, but the complexity of rules sounds like a maintenance nightmare for professional use.
- grajaganDev 2y agoYes and it increases XSS (cross site scripting) risk.
- beardyw 2y agoHTML was intended at first to be hand crafted by scientists. That it should be forgiving is a good thing, because who wants a "this page has imperfect html" message.
- metaloha 2y agoI've never dived (dove? doven?) into the output of an HTML minimizer, but I assumed this was one of the things it would do - remove all optional tags while retaining the same DOM tree output.