> An unclosed tag occurs when an opening HTML tag like <div>, <p>, or <span> is missing its corresponding closing tag.

Since when does <p> requires a closing tag? Note that TFA lists this among "spec violations" and not merely "best practices".

I think the closing </p> tag became required under the HTML 5 spec (2008). Before it was optional, except when using XHTML.

NooneAtAll3 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

p stands for paragraph. It's not a line break

	▲	ahakki 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The spec on <p>: "The start tag is required. The end tag may be omitted if the <p> element is immediately followed by an <address>, <article>, <aside>, <blockquote>, <details>, <div>, <dl>, <fieldset>, <figcaption>, <figure>, <footer>, <form>, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, <header>, <hgroup>, <hr>, <main>, <menu>, <nav>, <ol>, <pre>, <search>, <section>, <table>, <ul> or another <p> element, or if there is no more content in the parent element and the parent element is not an <a>, <audio>, <del>, <ins>, <map>, <noscript> or <video> element, or an autonomous custom element." [0][1] [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... [1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-p-element
	▲	chuckadams 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Nonetheless, <p> is automatically closed by the occurrence of another block-level element, like another <p> tag or ones like <div> or any header. <li> and <tr> have similar rules. We close them because we're not savages and want to see container tags balanced in the editor, but the html5 spec doesn't strictly require it.

elAhmo 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I always assumed all tags should be closed.

	▲	darrenf 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AIUI plenty of tags don't need to be closed. `<input>`, `<hr>`, `<img>` are the first three off the top of my head. Probably in XHTML you would've self-closed them.