Tag Helpers - Self closing HTML tags is a bad habit?

Question

I am incorporating TagHelpers in my MVC vNext project, and I realized they don\'t work when I self close the HTML tags.

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Answer 1

The reason they do not work is because the "MVC tag helpers do not change whether an element is self-closing or not" (from comments in issue #4475).

It is a known issue in ASP.NET and the plan is to show a warning in VS IDE under the scenario of a non-void element having an end tag (see issue #398). One of ASP.NET developers commented in issue #1302 that:

"this is the current design but we have a few issues (open and closed) on the behaviour"