tdewolff/minify

HTML: closing tag for '<p>' purged

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mirko commented

I was debugging why my HTML did not look as I would have figured and it turns out <p>-tags are just not closed in the minified version.

echo '<p></p>' | minify --type html results in <p>.

While this minimal test case might not cause a difference in appearance, that happening within mark-up does make a difference, though.

tdewolff commented

Hi Mirko, thanks for the bug report. This is however not a bug but a feature! In most circumstances (and only in those will minify do so), the closing of P or LI tags is completely optional. This will never cause a difference in appearance, unless you're using a HTML5 non-compliant browser.

mirko commented

Interesting, thanks. In case someone else stumbles across this, in case one really needs the <p>-tags being closed, minify has the option --html-keep-end-tags to preserve them.