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HTML HTML Forms Inputs

Posted by FNU Christian
FNU Christian
5,549 Points

Form Input does not have closing tag

Hello,

I just want to clarify, why does form INPUT does not have closing tag?

Lets say that the code is below

<input type="radio" name="gender" value="Male">Male

Why don't we do it like this

<input type="radio" name="gender" value="Male">Male</input>

Thank you before!

2 Answers

Hayden Taylor
Hayden Taylor
5,076 Points
Hayden Taylor
Hayden Taylor
5,076 Points

Some html elements such as the input element are single tags because they don't need a closing tag. Its about efficiency. Html has a bunch of tags which are like this. It boils down to "Element Content" which is anything you put between 2 tags where as the input tag: what kind of content would you want between it? These tags have specific functionality already and they aren't meant to be manipulated with adding content between them.

FNU Christian
FNU Christian
5,549 Points

Thank you, very informative!

Jumah Hamilton
Jumah Hamilton
8,648 Points
Jumah Hamilton
Jumah Hamilton
8,648 Points

Christian,

I am not sure what you are looking for but here is a stab at it.

'Form' does have a closing tag, 'Input' does not.. Not sure why this exists though. 

<form> 

 <input> 

</form>