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empty-element tag

Pronunciation

enPR: ĕmp′tē ĕl′ə-mənt tăg′
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmp.tiː ˈɛl.ə.mənt ˌtæɡ/
(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmp.ti ˈɛl.ə.mənt ˌtæɡ/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈemp.tiː ˈel.ə.mənt ˌtæɡ/
(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈemp.tiː ˈel.ə.mənt ˌtɛɡ/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmp.ti ˈɛl.ə.mənt ˌtaɡ/
(India) IPA^(key): /ˈɛmp.ʈiː ˈɛl.ɛ.mɛnʈ ˌʈaɡ/
Hyphenation: emp‧ty-el‧e‧ment tag

Noun

Examples (computing)
HTML: `<link rel="stylesheet" href="fancy.css" type="text/css">` XML: `<line-break />` SGML: `<!ELEMENT image - o EMPTY>`

empty-element tag (plural empty-element tags)

(computing) An empty HTML/XML/SGML element, one with tag(s) but no content.

See also

well-formed element

Further reading

HTML element § Empty element on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
XML § Key terminology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Standard Generalized Markup Language § EMPTY on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/empty-element_tag