title: Why is <div /> not treated the same as <div></div>
body: <p>I was just testing this and in both IE8 &amp; Chrome I see the same thing, empty (styled) divs are rendered differently depending which way you do it. It annoys me because the former seems so much neater.</p>
  
  <p>Why?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: thanks for the clarifications on XHTML Vs HTML. Currently I have this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb" /&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /&gt;
  &lt;title&gt;Test&lt;/title&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is a better choice? I'd prefer XHTML as I believe it's a bit nicer.</p>