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Optional Closing Tags in HTML 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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hai adding </head> to your page is not going to add that much code I would definitely keep closing them. I don't know where you saw that it was optional to close the <head> element, but it doesn't sound like a good idea.
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hai It will work without it in a browser, but it is still incorrect. Some browsers would probably display properly with just the <html></html> tags and no <head> or <body>.
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If you're in the habit of using closing tags, then why try to break the habit. Just keep doing what you're doing, especially since it sounds like it works for you.
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Actually I am not aware either that it's optional, thanks for starting this thread. But though the closing tag is optional, it's a good habit to always include it, just in case. Anyway, I am aware that the other tags like </bold>, </center> and </italic> are completely optional.
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