End Tag (/) removed from <link>

[sathishk]

We use HTML 5 based template engine (Thymeleaf), which will use strict mode to validate HTML documents. In short, At run time, they validate whether all HTML tags are closed properly like in XMLs. Consider we have below code inside our HTML

<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/main.css"/>

Once I run gulp build ( i used generator-gulp-angular), I noticed that, in the dist folder, the above HTML code becomes

<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/main.css">

without the '/' at the end which will be considered as unclosed tag.

[sindresorhus]

Not the right place. Figure out which gulp plugin modifies the HTML and ask on StackOverflow ;)

[sathishk]

Found that this issue comes from gulp-useref (https://github.com/jonkemp/gulp-useref) plugin. I raised a new defect jonkemp/gulp-useref#57