HTML elements that are self closing or different text content

This shows which elements are self closing or different text content

Created Apr 19, 2024

Updated May 28, 2025

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CategoryHTML Parsing

VisibilityPublic

TypeXSS

CharsetUTF-8

$[data1] placeholderhtml

Template used:

<$[data1] id=x>test</$[data1]>

Code used after fuzz:

if(document.getElementById('x').textContent !== 'test') {0x0D
   log('$[data1]');0x0D
}

Sample payloads

<area id=x>test</area>

<base id=x>test</base>

<br id=x>test</br>

<embed id=x>test</embed>

<hr id=x>test</hr>

<img id=x>test</img>

<input id=x>test</input>

<link id=x>test</link>

<meta id=x>test</meta>

<param id=x>test</param>

<source id=x>test</source>

<table id=x>test</table>

<template id=x>test</template>

<track id=x>test</track>

<wbr id=x>test</wbr>