[Celtic]

What does a / at the end of an HTML tag mean?

Like in this tag, for example:

[epic_sun]

This slash "/" is used for the closing of an empty tag. Empty tag is a tag which contains no sub-element.

[Vidar R]

In old-fashioned HTML you only had to close some tags - like should be closed with a . Other tags didn't need to be closed, you would write but no .In XML, on the other hand, all tags must be closed. But you can use a shortcut for closing the tag, which is putting the slash at the end of it.XHTML, which is a XML version of HTML, also require all tags to be closed.So in XHTML, is equal to

[enversetcontretous]

The / is meant to close some tags, because some tags can be self closeable, like and . But tags like A HREF need to be closed, like so <a href=""></a>.