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by egeozcan 4061 days ago
> I've seen a lot of html, and it's one very easy way to find the bad programmers - they all self close <br>.

There are a lot of people, including me, who does it out of habit, aesthetic worries, or to make the markup easier to parse for (some) humans. It's a bit like using Egyptian Brackets in JavaScript.