Close syntax missing in Hreflang Tag

[RajMankotia]

Hi @lydiapuric,
Please check the hreflang tag for all where we implemented we did not close the tag with "/>"

in old we have like this-

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This we have now-

Please fix this.

[lydiapuric]

@RajMankotia As far as I know it doesn't matter if tags are self-closing when they've been processed by the DOM and otherwise the browser itself would take care of that. What is the impact you see?

[RajMankotia]

I am getting this error -

and if I am checking on the web it shows -

they close at the end by "/>" but we close like this ">"

Please add "/" in last "/>".

[lydiapuric]

I will address this issue today, thanks Raj

[RajMankotia]

or we can try and check if it resolves this then it's fine.

[jose-correia]

@RajMankotia

• how are you accessing the page, how can i reproduce the error?

Adding this self-closing tags manually is not an option, since even if we do, the browser will remove them. This happens according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Void_element

I checked the old website in https://live-md30.pantheonsite.io/ and I also dont see any self-closing tags />

[RajMankotia]

It's from old website -

and it's that we implemented on migrated

at the end .com/" />
Currently, we have .com/">

I don't know more about coding but everywhere I see this tag applied or suggested on web they have closed it with a forward slash ( / ) at the end, but in our case, it's not.

[mhaack]

@RajMankotia what is the tool you use to check which complains?

Also, please double check on the old site: if you do view source yes there is a /> at the end. However if you do inspect the link tags also just end with >. This is correct according the HTML standards as @jose-correia shared the links and the browser corrects it.

Additionally you can test the following lines in any browser console:

const link = document.createElement('link');
link.rel = "alternate";
link.hreflang = 'ko';
link.href = 'https://ko.moleculardevices.com';
console.log(link);

You will see the link tag has no /> at the end.

[RajMankotia]

Hi, it shows an error for x-default - “no return tags”. will you please check for rest of i shows all ok

[RajMankotia]

Hi @mhaack
Even SEMrush also shows the error -

[alexcarol]

From what I see in the original site the links were already present in the html, could the issue be that we're adding them with javascript?