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What if we could add withoutCloseTag($keep_open=true) that makes a FluentHtmlElement not render it's closing tag in branchToHtml()?
(it would also require an additional parameter to HtmlBuilder::buildHtmlElement() that keeps the tag open)

Then we could open up elements to allow a static open() call that works the same as create() (or the constructor) but keeping the tag open.

I guess we'd need to keep a (private static) stack of open elements in FluentHtmlElement and set the last non-closed element as parent to an empty (no element name) holder element and set that holder as parent on any new instances created when a tag is open.
(The holder would be needed to keep the possibility of adding content before and after the current element.)

(Can an abstract class have static variables? If not, that won't work... But I think they can, referenced in a method on the abstract class using self::$static_var - not static::$static_var)

Then there should be a static close() method that pops the last open element from the stack, and returns a close tag string.

This would of course not work in any situation where a child element is trying to change or add content to a non-closed parent element that has already been rendered. The change would be done, but not visible. But that situation should be pretty rare.