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Originally Posted by theducks

<br> (and others) is no close needed

To help parse and to avoid confusion, All tags must close. Some can self close like:

<br />
<hr />

Thanks for the clarification. Ah, "self-closing tag". Nice to learn the correct term.

Yeah, I did know about most html tags needing a closing tag. To my mind self-closing tags mixed with non-self-closing tags in search/replace scenarios are quite confusing.