https://hugo.curtiscode.dev/tags/html/Recent content in html on Curtis TimsonHugo -- gohugo.ioen-GBThu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://hugo.curtiscode.dev/post/xslt/how-to-prevent-self-closing-elements-in-xslt/Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://hugo.curtiscode.dev/post/xslt/how-to-prevent-self-closing-elements-in-xslt/If you are to put an element into XSLT without any child elements, the element will automatically close itself. Therefore, if you have the following markup: <div class="clear"></div> XSLT will automatically render this as: <div class="clear" /> This is fine for most elements, however some elements such as <div> will behave differently if they are self-closed. A good way of preventing this from happening is to add an empty value into the <div> element like so: