microsoft / microsoft/vscode-html-languageservice

Suggestion. Add option to allow using self-closing tag on all HTML elements.

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Description

<div/>

This is not valid HTML. The browser will act like the closing tag doesn't exist, like so:

<div>

And vscode will correctly mark it as wrong like so:
image

But many html-like languages like Vue and JSX do allow self-closing tags, but vscode still marks it as wrong. It would be nice if we could allow all tags to be self-closed by setting a value in .vscode\settings.json

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Research direction

Start by locating the HTML validation that reports self-closing tags and the settings handling used by the language service. Add a setting that permits self-closing syntax for all HTML elements, while keeping the existing diagnostic by default; verify the behavior for

and ordinary HTML.

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Assessment

Tech stack
html, typescript
Domain
frontend, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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