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> An unclosed tag occurs when an opening HTML tag like <div>, <p>, or <span> is missing its corresponding closing tag. Since when does <p> requires a closing t

> An unclosed tag occurs when an opening HTML tag like <div>, <p>, or <span> is missing its corresponding closing tag. Since when does <p> requires a closing tag? Note that TFA lists this among "spec violations" and not merely "best practices".

NooneAtAll3 2mo ago
p stands for paragraph. It's not a line break
- ahakki 2mo ago
  The spec on <p>: "The start tag is required. The end tag may be omitted if the <p> element is immediately followed by an <address>, <article>, <aside>, <blockquote>, <details>, <div>, <dl>, <fieldset>, <figcaption>, <figure>, <footer>, <form>, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, <header>, <hgroup>, <hr>, <main>, <menu>, <nav>, <ol>, <pre>, <search>, <section>, <table>, <ul> or another <p> element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an <a>, <audio>, <del>, <ins>, <map>, <noscript> or <video> element, or an autonomous custom element." [0][1] [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/p https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... [1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-p-element https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-p-element
- chuckadams 2mo ago
  Nonetheless, <p> is automatically closed by the occurrence of another block-level element, like another <p> tag or ones like <div> or any header. <li> and <tr> have similar rules. We close them because we're not savages and want to see container tags balanced in the editor, but the html5 spec doesn't strictly require it.
elAhmo 2mo ago
I always assumed all tags should be closed.
- darrenf 2mo ago
  AIUI plenty of tags don't need to be closed. `<input>`, `<hr>`, `<img>` are the first three off the top of my head. Probably in XHTML you would've self-closed them.
  - account42 2mo ago
    Those are different from <p> as they are always self-closing immediately and thus cannot even be manually closed. <p> is only automatically closed if there is no </p> before the next block element.
francisofascii 2mo ago
I think the closing </p> tag became required under the HTML 5 spec (2008). Before it was optional, except when using XHTML.

NooneAtAll3 2mo ago

p stands for paragraph. It's not a line break

ahakki 2mo ago
The spec on <p>: "The start tag is required. The end tag may be omitted if the <p> element is immediately followed by an <address>, <article>, <aside>, <blockquote>, <details>, <div>, <dl>, <fieldset>, <figcaption>, <figure>, <footer>, <form>, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, <header>, <hgroup>, <hr>, <main>, <menu>, <nav>, <ol>, <pre>, <search>, <section>, <table>, <ul> or another <p> element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an <a>, <audio>, <del>, <ins>, <map>, <noscript> or <video> element, or an autonomous custom element." [0][1] [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/p https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... [1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-p-element https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-p-element
chuckadams 2mo ago
Nonetheless, <p> is automatically closed by the occurrence of another block-level element, like another <p> tag or ones like <div> or any header. <li> and <tr> have similar rules. We close them because we're not savages and want to see container tags balanced in the editor, but the html5 spec doesn't strictly require it.

elAhmo 2mo ago

I always assumed all tags should be closed.

darrenf 2mo ago
AIUI plenty of tags don't need to be closed. `<input>`, `<hr>`, `<img>` are the first three off the top of my head. Probably in XHTML you would've self-closed them.
- account42 2mo ago
  Those are different from <p> as they are always self-closing immediately and thus cannot even be manually closed. <p> is only automatically closed if there is no </p> before the next block element.

francisofascii 2mo ago

I think the closing </p> tag became required under the HTML 5 spec (2008). Before it was optional, except when using XHTML.