Aurelia: self-closing require element does not work

Question

Why can't Aurelia deal with self-closing require elements?

For example:

<require from="component"></require> works

<require from="component"/> doesn't work

No error is given, yet the entire template will fail if you try to use the self-closing element.

ahh I suspect its because its not valid html5 syntax: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3558119/are-self-closing-tags-valid-in-html5 — Meirion Hughes, May 18 '16 at 13:30
I'll leave this here; I suspect other people will make the same mistake as I did. — Meirion Hughes, May 18 '16 at 13:39
You tagged your question both html and xml. Which one is it? A document cannot be both. — BoltClock, May 18 '16 at 13:45
html; made the mistake of thinking the templates were xml. Removed Tag. — Meirion Hughes, May 18 '16 at 13:46
Also related more closely http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23961178/do-custom-elements-require-a-close-tag — Matt McCabe, May 19 '16 at 07:56

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited May 18 '16 at 14:04

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According to the HTML specification, there are just a few void elements (elements that only have a start tag), which are:

area, base, br, col, embed, hr, img, input, keygen, link, meta, param, source, track, wbr.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#void-elements.

Aurelia uses the browser's native DOMParser, which means it follows the same set of standards.

edited May 18 '16 at 14:04

Jeremy Danyow

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answered May 18 '16 at 13:41

Fabio

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this is kinda of weird... but I've noticed I'm doing self-closed `div`'s in the index.html (loaded directly by chrome) and its got no issues with it. – Meirion Hughes May 19 '16 at 13:03

Aurelia: self-closing require element does not work

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