Cloud Nine Squad {C-iX}

When I view source codes of websites to see what everyone is doing, I notice that everyone puts a space between an end quote and the forward slash, right before the closing bracket.

What makes....

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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

different than....

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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

??

Are search engines happy without the space or could this screw up how the bots read metadata?

Zorro will have to fill us in on any possible technical reasons, but I can't imagine it affects SEO.

I'm guessing, like most standards, it points back to semantic value and readability. Much more identifiable as a self-enclosing tag when you see the space.

Bullet Magnet is absolutely correct and he explained the reason for the space perfectly. From a SEO standpoint, it doesn't affect SEO in any way because the need for self closing tags is entirely dependent on what version of the HTML spec you're following.

Okay, thanks for the info. It seems as though it's just more typing but I guess it's not as obvious to people who don't use N++ (since it distinguishes HTML elements well by color).