Empty tags

oldcrazylegs

10-30-2009, 04:31 AM

In HTML 5 do empty tags like <link> have to be terminated like <link /> in XHTML or as <link> in HTML 4?

SystemJay

10-30-2009, 12:48 PM

Straight aswer to your example I belive: <link />
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_link.asp

To any other tag related question:
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_reference.asp

Scriptet

10-30-2009, 01:42 PM

From what I remember they don't have to be, they just allow for it due to the widespread use of XHTML, and allow for the ease of migrating from this DOCTYPE.

VIPStephan

10-30-2009, 02:48 PM

HTML 5 can be written with classic HTML syntax or with XHTML syntax, depending on how you send it (as text/html or as application/xml+xhtml). Mind that if you send it as XML you also need to provide the proper namespace.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-diff-20080122/#syntax

oldcrazylegs

11-01-2009, 10:18 AM

Straight aswer to your example I belive: <link />
http://www.w3schools.com/html5/tag_link.asp

I saw that but wasn't sure if it was the correct way. It seemed strange mixing HTML with XHTML. Thanks.