Consider allowing optional argument for closing div tag

It would be helpful to me, and maybe to others as well, if it were valid to
specify an optional argument for a closing div tag (and maybe others as
well), i. e.
<div id="header">
....
</div id="header">

That way it is easier to see the intended structure.

I know I could simulate this like:
</div><!-- id="header" -->
but consider it not as elegant as my suggestion.

How do others feel about this or has this been talked to death already
without me noticing?

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Frank Spade" <news (AT) teampc (DOT) com>
writing in news:floggo$ip4$03$1 (AT) news (DOT) t-online.com:

It would be helpful to me, and maybe to others as well, if it were
valid to specify an optional argument for a closing div tag (and maybe
others as well), i. e.
div id="header"
...
/div id="header"

That way it is easier to see the intended structure.

I know I could simulate this like:
/div><!-- id="header" --
but consider it not as elegant as my suggestion.

How do others feel about this or has this been talked to death already
without me noticing?

The closing tag cannot contain attributes. Some editors can collapse
markup to do this for you, or can find matching opening and closing
tags. Have a look at [http://www.chami.com/html-kit/], it has the
ability to find matching tags, and the paid for version can collapse
tags.

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