Empty HTML Elements

Empty HTML Elements — Are HTML elements with no content.

<p>This is a <br> paragraph with a line break.</p>

• Do not have an end tag, such as the <br> element.
• Can be closed" in the opening tag like this.
• HTML5 does not require empty elements to be closed.
• But if you want stricter validation, or if you need to make your document readable by XML parsers, you must close all HTML elements properly.