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Why do I see so many sample PHP files with "/>" instead of ">" in the HTML-interpreted portion?

Oct 8th, 2006 10:22
Matthew Wilkinson, Angelina Bell,

/> is the way of closing tags that do not require closing tags. For
instance <br /> does not require a closing tag, and so a slash is added
before the tag closes. This is only required in XHTML or HTML 4.01
Strict, but in normal HTML, this sort of closing method is not strictly
necessary.