Does <meta> tag has a closing tag?

Question

Does <meta> tag has a closing tag or it is a stand alone tag?
If stand alone, then is it like <br /> tag or different?

Answer 1

No, it has not close tag and close it like the <br> element is optional.

However, there are people who think the best practice is to use the
HTML5 syntax { <meta> }
rather than XHTML { <meta /> }