Reputation: 9133

Are bootstrap examples valid HTML

On the bootstrap CSS guide, there are numerous examples like this:

  <div class="checkbox">
    <label>
      <input type="checkbox"> Check me out
    </label>
  </div>

Is it just me or is that input tag not closed? It's definitely not a typo - they seemingly never close input tags. What would be the reason to consistently do this?

Upvotes: 0

Answers (5)

GROVER.

Reputation: 4378

The input tag is what is called a void element, and void elements do not require an end tag.

Here is a complete list of all void elements within HTML:

area
base
br
col
command
embed
hr
img
input
keygen
link meta
param
source
track
wbr

More about information void elements can be found here: Void Elements in HTML

Upvotes: 3

JustinRvt

Reputation: 1

Actually, is a void element which means it's goal is not to contain text or whatever and it has a start tag but you shouldn't add an end tag.

This would not be W3C valid. On the other end, non-void elements MUST have an end tag.

(List of void elements : area, base, br, col, command, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr)

Upvotes: 0

Aneesh bhat

Reputation: 23

According to w3schools.com, in HTML you do not need to close input tags at all. But, in XHTML, the <input> tag must be properly closed, like this <input/>.

Upvotes: 0