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> writing closing tags is cumbersome

Personally I've come to appreciate that many closing tags are unnecessary in HTML. Makes many constructs much more concise. Especially with tables:

  <table>
  <caption>Some letters and numbers
  <thead> <tr> <th>Letters <th>Numbers
  <tbody>
    <tr> <td>A <td>1
    <tr> <td>B <td>2
    <tr> <td>C <td>3
  </table>


Is there an HTML formatter that'll strip unnecessary closing tags?

I used to be team semi-colon in JS but I've switched teams now and have my formatter strip them. There's like 1 or 2 edge cases where that can bite you but practically speaking it's a non-issue. The real downside is that I sometimes get lazy when writing C++ and that very much dislikes poor punctuation.




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