Optional Closing Tags in HTML

komlom · 10-05-2007, 03:13 AM

For as long as I've been validating web pages, I never realized that the closing </head> tag was optional in HTML. I feel as if I've missed the boat at times.

While I'm all for trimming excess code, I just cannot for the life of me strip out closing tags because they are optional in HTML. I'd be concerned that something, somewhere would not parse the document correctly if I removed the closing </head> element.

Are my concerns unfounded?
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CrazeD · 10-05-2007, 02:44 PM

Heh...I never knew that either.

I would close it anyway though, just because it seems proper to close all tags.

ReikokuKo · 10-05-2007, 02:51 PM

This is very interesting. Have you found any other tags that don't need to be closed?

ReikokuKo · 10-05-2007, 02:52 PM

Hold on, so you don't close the </head> and just start <body>?

I would imagine that it would start the <body> within in the <head> and I don't much about PHP but maybe when you call up a header in PHP, it will call up whatever you have in <head> which will then include all your contents in <body>

CrazeD · 10-05-2007, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ReikokuKo

Hold on, so you don't close the </head> and just start <body>?

I would imagine that it would start the <body> within in the <head> and I don't much about PHP but maybe when you call up a header in PHP, it will call up whatever you have in <head> which will then include all your contents in <body>

PHP is parsed before HTML, so, no it won't.