Thread: HTML Closing tags: Good to be trimmed?

I am presenting a question that has something to do with the present discovery that I have made. Although I am pretty sure that many of you out there already know about this, it will still be good to shed light on this matter. I am concerned about clipping the extra and useless closing tags on my HTML codes. In the past, I haven’t paid much attention to these things but the growing bulk of articles and posts about it have made me worried. Will it affect the overall performance and visibility of the website that I have created? Will my website be less SEO effective without these extra codes?

I think it is beneficiary to follow the W3C school convention for formatting tags as it is to avoid any complexion in your design and formatting.

I think it is beneficiary to follow the W3C school convention for formatting tags as it is to avoid any complexion in your design and formatting.

Better to go for what is advised to. w3c convention does mention that its necessary to have closing tags. But there have talks going on for trimming the closing tags for only some codes. Hope they bring it into action some day.

I am presenting a question that has something to do with the present discovery that I have made. Although I am pretty sure that many of you out there already know about this, it will still be good to shed light on this matter. I am concerned about clipping the extra and useless closing tags on my HTML codes. In the past, I haven’t paid much attention to these things but the growing bulk of articles and posts about it have made me worried. Will it affect the overall performance and visibility of the website that I have created? Will my website be less SEO effective without these extra codes?

Hi,
The “HTML” should properly open and closed. Otherwise your website will not be compatible with all browsers. The other important issue is “W3C validator” (standard tool for checking website) doesn’t pass your website. Therefore, your website doesn’t get the better rank in “SERP”. You can check the code sequence of the website through “validator.w3.org”.

Trimming can give exceptional results, so check every time you trim the tags.

Let me suggest a different way of viewing this. We all know that future versions of HTML are going to require closing tags. We also know that that is the standard set by W3C for xhtml.

So, we need to follow the standards to make sure that everyone handles everything in the way we intend. IE is exceptionally infamous for this, what it does on your particular machine in one version is no guarantee that is what is going to happen on another machine with the same version, let's not even get into the subject of multiple versions and how they handle things.

Any how, when I started coding HTML back in '91 html was a completely different beast to be sure, there was no such thing as CSS, using such things as font size tags, font color tags, using both upper or lower case, pretty much following whatever whim took your fancy. As the language developed then certain things became deprecated and even non-functional, any pages that were written in the old code but were still usable information wise had to be recoded to the new standards. Those that new the new standards were coming started implementing the changes a little at a time, or were already using them before the old ways were done away with completely, others were caught with their pants down grumbling and complaining about change the whole time.

It is always best to stay with current standards, the W3C is the current standard setter, following their suggestions is always best. trimming the closing tags isn't going to save you that much as far as load time goes so there is really no reason to do it, if your site is loading that slowly then breaking it up into smaller chunks, optimizing graphics, and code by compression or other means is the best avenue to follow, there are hundreds of articles and links showing how to use compression and other techniques to get the best performance from your website, an excellent tool to have for this is Firebug add-on for firefox, it will give you your load times and make suggestions on how to properly improve it when needed.

hope this helps

I think W3C school is the best