Low priority: some HTML tags should not be closed
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100
Research direction
Start at the htmltools::tags$meta entry point and inspect how HTML tags are rendered, then find the existing tests for generated tags. Verify the behavior for meta, br, link, and input, and consider the work done when those tags render without a closing slash while other tags retain their current behavior.
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Description
There are some HTML tags that are not closed by convention. They are allowed to be closed for backwards compatibility with XHTML, but in practice these days they never have a closing slash.
These tags are the ones I know about: meta br link input
For example, the following code
htmltools::tags$meta(name="foo", content="bar")
Currently generates <meta name="foo" content="bar"/> but it should be <meta name="foo" content="bar">
- Dominant language
- R
- Stars
- 225
- Forks
- 73
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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