You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML

Re:You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <... by psychoslave on Sunday January 11, 2026 @05:45AM (#46574377)

This is invalid html, p tag can be nested in a p tag.

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Re:You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <... by Hendrikto on Sunday January 11, 2026 @12:05PM (#46577463)

Even though it arguably should be, according to HTML5 parsing rules, this is not invalid. It is just interpreted differently from what most people would probably expect.

I think this is the point of the example, afaiui: The closing tags don’t clarify anything, quite the contrary, actually. They serve only to confuse the reader.

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