Topic: option tag has to be closed???

Hi, guys. How are you?
Could I aks you something, please?
I just wonder if I must close option tag or not.
A lot of book seem not close this tag.
Something like:

<select>
<option>A
<option>B
<option>C
</select>

But I personally thought:

<select>
<option>A</option>
<option>B</option>
<option>C</option>
</select>

This is right. Becaue in XHTML, all tag must be closed, isn't it???
Am I right? would you give me your comments, please?



Hiroki Kozai

In XHTML all tags must be closed. So if you're using XHTML, then yes.

If you're using HTML though, you don't need to close it.

Thanks, mate.
Have a good day.


Hiroki Kozai

And since XHTML replaced HTML, yes. Close all tags. ALL TAGS.

Although you don't strictly need the closing </OPTION> tag, it is good practice to put it in your code. Some browsers (not IE, but some versions of Netscape and others) are particular about the way they display things, and if they don't come across the closing tags for HTML elements, your code may well appear rather strangely... all depends how browser-compatible your code needs to be.

If you haven't reached the end of the road and you're not at the start then you must be somewhere in the middle

Except, of course, as Synax said XHTML *does* require the closing tag, and as Pugzly said XHTML is the next version of HTML....so unless there's some compelling reason for them not to, people should be using XHTML at this point.