ENUM

I use an ENUM field named status, this is the HTML code being generated, it looks like the closing tag before the options is invalid and should be > instead of />
Why is this tag a closing tag?

<field id="status"
name="status"
type="list"
class="inputbox"
label="COM_MAINTENANCE_FORM_LBL_OPERATION_STATUS"
description="COM_MAINTENANCE_FORM_DESC_OPERATION_STATUS"
required="true"
/>
<option value="Reported as Active">Reported as Active</option>
<option value="Approved">Approved</option>
<option value="Pending Approval">Pending Approval</option>
<option value="Rejected">Rejected</option>
<option value="Deleted">Deleted</option>
<option value="Pending Moderation">Pending Moderation</option>
<option value="Moderated">Moderated</option>
</field>