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The Biggest Lie In HTML? 👺

I just came by Theo's kinda clickbaity video "The Biggest Lie In HTML".

I recommend watching the video, but here is a TLDW:

HTML standard is "broken", and Svelte and React treat self-closing tags differently. For more details, there is an awesome article by Jake Archibald The case against self-closing tags in HTML

There is no such thing as self-closing ⚠️

First of all, self-closing tags do not exist in HTML. We only …

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