Help:Lint errors/self-closed-tag

Pages on this list contain invalid self-closed HTML tags, such as ,, , , .

(Valid tags defined in the HTML5 specification, like ,, , do not cause this error.)  Some MediaWiki XML tags are also valid when self-closed, like  and  , as well as some extension tags like and  , which should usually be changed to   (move the slash from end to beginning of the closing tag).

Where an invalid or  (with no attributes such as   or  ) is used as a spacer to prevent wikicode from rendering in example code, like , either replace  with  for valid code that achieves the same effect, or use a template-linking template such as   or , as in.

Some templates include an anchor id parameter. When fixing self-closed  and   tags that appear immediately before such templates, consider moving the anchor text from the HTML tag to inside the template and removing the now-unneeded tag.

If a given page on this list does not appear to have any invalid self-closed tags, it may be transcluding a page or template that does.

Example

 * Invalid markup
 * abc


 * Valid markup
 * abc

Tools
The following tools can help fix invalid self-closed HTML tags:
 * WPCleaner: see instructions on how to use WPCleaner for fixing errors detected by Linter. Self closed tags may be reported by WPCleaner as part of CheckWiki error #2.