form helper and HTML 4

[eluser]dwlamb[/eluser]
@Aken or anyone

I'm relatively new to CI and OOP. Can you give me the steps to extend the form helper and modify the code so that it does not render ' />'?

There should be a way with any of the helpers to turn-off self-closing tag syntax. Further development of XHTML as a standard is not going to happen and the self-close is not necessary in HTML 5.