Comments on: All Empty Tags in HTML

By: Andy Logic

Andy Logic — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:39:04 +0000

Just stumbledupon this and it’s a great list.

Would this be broadened to include & nbsp and other similar elements?

By: Geoff Richards

Geoff Richards — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:55:31 +0000

I’ve had to come up with a list of the same thing. Here’s mine, copied out of the Lua library I’m working on:

— Defined in HTML 4.01:
“area”, “base”, “basefont”, “br”, “col”, “frame”, “hr”,
“img”, “input”, “isindex”, “link”, “meta”, “param”,

— Defined (but deprecated) in HTML 2.0 (RFC 1866):
“nextid”,

— Proprietary extensions:
“bgsound”, “embed”, “keygen”, “spacer”, “wbr”

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By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:04:44 +0000

Guess I should have stripped the arrows from the tag.

What I was trying to way:
I guess this depends on the definition of “classic” html. I don’t think that the embed tag has been part of the standard html.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:59:01 +0000

I guess this depends on the definition of “classic” html. I don’t think that has been part of the standard html.

By: Carey

Carey — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:12:21 +0000

You’re missing FRAME from HTML 4, ISINDEX and NEXTID from HTML 2, and BASEFONT, BGSOUND, KEYGEN, SOUND, SPACER and WBR from various proprietary extensions.