Bug 126879 - HTML-Export: Doctype doesn't coincide with end of Standalone-Tag
Summary: HTML-Export: Doctype doesn't coincide with end of Standalone-Tag
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: filters and storage (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.1.5.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Blocks: HTML-Export
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Reported: 2019-08-13 14:01 UTC by Robert Großkopf
Modified: 2019-08-14 11:17 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Großkopf 2019-08-13 14:01:08 UTC 
Open a empty writer page.
Save it as "HTML".
Have a look at the HTML-code.
It will look like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<meta name="generator" content="LibreOffice 6.3.0.4 (Linux)"/>
<br/>

There is a DOCTYPE HTML 4.0 (which is obsolete since 1999!) and every standalone tag ends with "/>", which is only allowed with HTML5 or XHTML.

Two possible solutions:
1) Set <!DOCTYPE html> instead of the very old DOCTYPE. It will set the document to HTML5.
2) Remove all frontslashes followed by ">".

I would prefer to go forward, not back to 1999!

All tested with LO 6.3.0.4 (see above), OpenSUSE 15 64bit rpm Linux.
Comment 1 spots4as 2019-08-14 05:44:59 UTC 
confirmed with LO 6.0.7.3 (Ubuntu Mate 18.04)
Comment 2 Robert Großkopf 2019-08-14 07:36:42 UTC 
Could also reproduce this in OpenSUSE 15 with LO 5.1.5.2, the oldest Version, I have installed here.