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Yes, it's in the HTML spec as "solidus" because Unicode 0x47 is "SOLIDUS". That's the right thing to do in an important spec. It's just confusing in a blog post
by jahewson 14y ago
Yes, it's in the HTML spec as "solidus" because Unicode 0x47 is "SOLIDUS". That's the right thing to do in an important spec. It's just confusing in a blog post though, as most people have not heard of a solidus, and now they've learnt it wrong!
- mathias 14y agoI’ve always used the term “solidus” whenever I refer to the slash in `/>` in self-closing elements in XML/XHTML. In any other situation I’d call it a slash.