diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ae1bf38..32ed764 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ## Tools development version
 
 - minor documentation improvements. (#197, #198, @kelly-sovacool)
+- `ccbr-hooks detect-absolute-paths`: Ignore self-closing HTML tags to avoid
+  false positives from `/>`. (#228, @kelly-sovacool, @copilot)
 
 ## Tools 0.7.0
 
diff --git a/src/ccbr_tools/hooks/detect_absolute_paths.py b/src/ccbr_tools/hooks/detect_absolute_paths.py
index dd052e3..5c8ca37 100644
--- a/src/ccbr_tools/hooks/detect_absolute_paths.py
+++ b/src/ccbr_tools/hooks/detect_absolute_paths.py
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ def word_is_absolute_path(word):
     return word.startswith("/") and not any(
         [
             word == "/",  # FP from pathlib. abs-path:ignore
+            word == "/>",  # FP from self-closing HTML tags. abs-path:ignore
             word.startswith("/dev/null"),
             word.startswith("/dev/shm"),
             word.startswith("//"),  # FP from groovy comments. abs-path:ignore
diff --git a/tests/test_hooks.py b/tests/test_hooks.py
index 00a08e6..7feea8a 100644
--- a/tests/test_hooks.py
+++ b/tests/test_hooks.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ def test_word_is_absolute_path():
     assert not hooks.word_is_absolute_path("/dev/null")  # common shell redirection
     assert not hooks.word_is_absolute_path("/dev/shm")  # common shell redirection
     assert not hooks.word_is_absolute_path("/$")  # nextflow script
+    assert not hooks.word_is_absolute_path("/>")  # self-closing HTML tag
 
 
 def test_line_contains_absolute_path():