Can the tag not be self closed?

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In HTML, there are tags which are always self-closed. For example, <hr>Some content here</hr> does not make any sense. In the same way, there are tags which cannot be self-closed. <script> tag is one of them.

I am not sure about the reason of no self-closed <script> tags, but the reason might come from the fact that the tag was intended to always contain code inside. Again, I’m not sure.

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