Removing self-closing tag

[ThomasLandauer]

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[rupasix]

AFAIK, both cases, before and after that change, are not valid HTML. SPAN is not void element. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Void_element

[ThomasLandauer]

https://validator.w3.org/nu/ says:

Warning: Self-closing tag syntax in text/html documents is widely discouraged; it’s unnecessary and interacts badly with other HTML features (e.g., unquoted attribute values). If you’re using a tool that injects self-closing tag syntax into all void elements, without any option to prevent it from doing so, then consider switching to a different tool.

In short:
<span /> is wrong, whereas <span> is at least a valid starting tag.

[rupasix]

I tried ...

[marcoroth]

Let's make it right then and let's use <span></span>

[ThomasLandauer]

OK, there you go :-)