HTML Best Practices: Lowercase Tags

Austin Songer
Jan 18, 2017 · 1 min read

Although HTML is not case sensitive, using lowercase tags is our preferred pattern. Again, we’re emphasizing readability and consistency.

Examples

Bad:

<DIV class="featured-image"></DIV>

Good:

<div class="featured-image"></div>

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