I have a asp.net mvc site with a master page and it has following tag in the head.

```
<head runat="server">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">

```

But when I goto view source in any browser, the meta tag is shown as

```
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />

```

Who is adding the / to the end as /> 

Issue is when the site is validated with w3 validator it shows an error saying that the meta tag should be closed as > not as />. But I cannot find how the /> is created.

Doct type is

```
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

```

Site is online at <http://tipila.com> if you want to see it for yourself.

I'm totally clueless here. Any help is appriciated.

This happens in both casini and IIS 7