Using the XHTML closing slash (/) on normal tags?
html, xhtml
Solution
No you can't do that, `span` is not self-closing tag. Here are the self closing tags:
<area />
<base />
<basefont />
<br />
<hr />
<input />
<img />
<link />
<meta />
Problem
I was just wondering whether it is acceptable to close a common tag, eg. a `<span>` which requires no data using the XHTML closing slash to reduce markup. So for example: ``` <span id='hello'></span> ``` could be written as ``` <span id='hello' /> ```