get_avatar produces invalid XHTML for default avatar

[Otto42]

Trunk. pluggable.php, line 1253 or thereabouts.

$avatar = "<img alt='' src='{$default}' class='avatar avatar-{$size} avatar-default' height='{$size}' width='{$size}'>";

That's an unclosed image tag. It should be:

$avatar = "<img alt='' src='{$default}' class='avatar avatar-{$size} avatar-default' height='{$size}' width='{$size}' />";

Tagging this as high/major because it makes default out-of-the-box installs fail validation. Also, it's a 2 character fix.

[ryan]

(In [7461]) Close img tag. Props Otto42. fixes #6339

[iamonlythird]

This is not fixed. The same problem is still current in WP 4. Are there any plans to apply this fix to the next upgrade of WordPress?

[Otto42]

No, this issue is definitely fixed, as of 7 years ago. You can see that the img tags it produces have the closing slashes in the code:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/wp-includes/pluggable.php#L2188