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I was just wondering about a random misc. convention. If you for some reason have an empty div, would you do

<div></div>

or would you do

<div />
Alex Benoit
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  • possible duplicate of [Are self-closing tags valid in HTML5?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3558119/are-self-closing-tags-valid-in-html5) – Jukka K. Korpela Feb 10 '14 at 07:11

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The latter is not valid markup, a div element cannot close itself like img or br

The reason is that a div is considered a non-void element. This means it is meant to have content, even if you leave it empty.

Here is a list of elements which can be void, or self closing

ebolyen
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    `) is valid in XHTML, just not recommended when compatibility with legacy HTML processors is an issue (like on web pages served as text/html).     – Jukka K. Korpela Feb 10 '14 at 07:13