title: Properly closing or self-closing tags in HTML5
body: <p>I have a question relating to closing HTML tags that are <strong>self-closing</strong>.</p>
  
  <p>Which is more proper?</p>
  
  <pre><code>1. &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;
  2. &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/&gt;
  3. &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also, if anyone has a good alternative for this <code>&lt;meta&gt;</code> tag, for example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /&gt;
  OR
  &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6771258/whats-the-difference-if-meta-http-equiv-x-ua-compatible-content-ie-edge-e">This</a> article helped me some-what.</p>
  
  <p>I use <code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;</code> for my doc type.</p>