History of Empty element Revision history for: English (US) Oct 3, 2016, 3:51:58 AM chrisdavidmills Previous Sep 19, 2016, 2:45:44 PM joshcartme The W3 spec calls them void elements, https://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#void-element, so the note that was at the bottom of this page is factually incorrect and in fact it may be more accurate to call them void elements, not empty elements Previous Sep 14, 2016, 10:55:40 AM ThatGlennD Editorial review completed. Previous May 28, 2016, 4:47:22 PM jtojnar spec uses term “void element” https://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/syntax.html#void-element Previous May 28, 2016, 4:45:51 PM jtojnar add embed Previous May 28, 2016, 4:44:44 PM jtojnar Previous Jun 29, 2015, 1:49:44 PM cvrebert Mention how closing tags are usually invalid Previous Apr 4, 2015, 11:52:08 AM Andrew_Pfeiffer Previous Mar 13, 2015, 9:33:58 AM Andrew_Pfeiffer Previous Mar 13, 2015, 9:33:25 AM Andrew_Pfeiffer