Empty element!

HTML & CSS
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hi all!
I am new to website development and i am learning HTML. when i was reading about it; i come to know this term EMpty element but it is not defined properly.

I wonder if you could explain that to me?
Thanks

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Element types that are designed to have no content are called ‘empty’ elements.

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Examples include (but are not limited to) a line break, <br> and a horizontal rule, <hr>

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For refs, see the Elements section of the W3 spec for HTML 4.01 (Empty elements are marked by an E).

Differences in XHTML 1.0.

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thanks a lot for your help :slight_smile:

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I guess you could also add elements that are not technically ‘empty’ elements, but which have been left empty by the author, such as an empty <p></p> element. But in this case it’s not a class of element so much as the state of an element. (I just made that up, but it sounds cool. :smiley: )

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This is why HTML now calls <br> and friends for “void” elements. :slight_smile:

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I also wondered where the term “replaced” elements fits in, for things like images. Is it technical term or not, as it wasn’t included in Victorinox’s link above?

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Replaced elements is a CSS term, not an HTML term. See:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/conform.html#replaced-element
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html

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Ah thanks. I should have looked it up first. :blush:

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The terms empty element and void were discussed a while back in this thread.

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thanks once again for such a deep help. i would never have done that myself… you do not know me :smiley: