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Bug 18799 - Output tag needs a closing tag
Summary: Output tag needs a closing tag
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5: The Markup Language (editor: Michael(tm) Smith) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael[tm] Smith
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-09-07 11:52 UTC by Balamurugan Jeyabal
Modified: 2012-09-07 13:10 UTC (History)
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Description Balamurugan Jeyabal 2012-09-07 11:52:31 UTC 
Hi,

Output tag in html 5 requires a explicit closing tag, rather than the actual html4 standards.

e.g:
pass --> <output onforminput="value=slider1.value"> </output>
fails --> <output onforminput="value=slider1.value" />

Thanks,
Bala
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2012-09-07 13:10:16 UTC 
The HTML5: The Markup Language draft already says that output must have an end tag:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/output.html#output-tags

What change are you asking for? And did you intend to file this against the HTML5: The Markup Language or did you mean to file it against the HTML5 spec? (They are two different documents.)