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jvvg · 2012-06-03 23:26:46

I found out about the W3C validator a while ago, and have recently been running it on some of my favorite sites.

I ran it on this site, and found a lot of errors (56 errors, 35 warnings).

See http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% … ator%2F1.3
It appears that part of the problem is that since this site uses HTML 4 Strict, you can't close self-close tags (i.e. instead of ).

At some point, the website developers should work on fixing these.

chanmanpartyman · 2012-06-03 23:31:18

Even though this goes off into a more advanced topic, I think it should belong in Bugs and Glitches. I'm not really sure though tongue

jvvg · 2012-06-03 23:37:37

chanmanpartyman wrote:
Even though this goes off into a more advanced topic, I think it should belong in Bugs and Glitches. I'm not really sure though

It could be either. HTML is an advanced topic, but this is also a bug/glitch.

Edit: I wonder if there's a way this topic can be in both. tongue

Last edited by jvvg (2012-06-03 23:37:53)

chanmanpartyman · 2012-06-03 23:44:42

jvvg wrote:
chanmanpartyman wrote:
Even though this goes off into a more advanced topic, I think it should belong in Bugs and Glitches. I'm not really sure though
It could be either. HTML is an advanced topic, but this is also a bug/glitch.

Edit: I wonder if there's a way this topic can be in both.

But they delete duplicates tongue So many rules...

jji7skyline · 2012-06-03 23:49:08

Wait, you can't just write ?

chanmanpartyman · 2012-06-04 00:37:49

jji7skyline wrote:
Wait, you can't just write ?

Yeah... I think. It probably does, but I'm going to try

Code:

<html>
<head><title>Line Break</title>Test</head>
<body>
<p>Hello</br>World!</p>
</body>
</html>

EDIT: Yep, it works tongue

Last edited by chanmanpartyman (2012-06-04 00:38:45)

jvvg · 2012-06-04 09:58:08

chanmanpartyman wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
Wait, you can't just write ?
Yeah... I think. It probably does, but I'm going to try
Code:
<html>
<head><title>Line Break</title>Test</head>
<body>
HelloWorld!
</body>
</html>
EDIT: Yep, it works

It may work, but I don't think it's valid.

GeonoTRON2000 · 2012-06-04 10:02:53

jvvg wrote:
chanmanpartyman wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
Wait, you can't just write ?
Yeah... I think. It probably does, but I'm going to try
Code:
<html>
<head><title>Line Break</title>Test</head>
<body>
HelloWorld!
</body>
</html>
EDIT: Yep, it works
It may work, but I don't think it's valid.

It's not valid. That's horrible form.

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Line Break Test</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Line<br />Break<br />Test<br />=D</p>
</body>
</html>

Edit: lol... my javascript and css kills the validator.

Edit #2: my forums look O.K, though.

Last edited by GeonoTRON2000 (2012-06-04 10:09:51)

jvvg · 2012-06-04 10:04:19

That bottom one is valid in XHTML (if you add doctype and xml namespace), but not in HTML 4 Strict.
Also, you have to open a tag before closing it, so yes, that top one is horrible form.

sparks · 2012-06-04 10:22:12

You realise that the entire site is being redesigned at the moment, ready for the release of 2.0 in a few months? smile I'm going to more this over to bugs and glitches since I think it's better suited over there!

jvvg · 2012-06-04 10:38:01

sparks wrote:
You realise that the entire site is being redesigned at the moment, ready for the release of 2.0 in a few months?

I hope the new site meets HTML/XHTML standards.

XenoK · 2012-06-04 12:43:24

sparks wrote:
You realise that the entire site is being redesigned at the moment, ready for the release of 2.0 in a few months? I'm going to more this over to bugs and glitches since I think it's better suited over there!

they said that two years ago.

jvvg · 2012-06-04 13:54:37

XenoK wrote:
sparks wrote:
You realise that the entire site is being redesigned at the moment, ready for the release of 2.0 in a few months? I'm going to more this over to bugs and glitches since I think it's better suited over there!
they said that two years ago.

This time, they actually showed us a milestone of the new website, though.

chanmanpartyman · 2012-06-04 16:27:08

jvvg wrote:
That bottom one is valid in XHTML (if you add doctype and xml namespace), but not in HTML 4 Strict.
Also, you have to open a tag before closing it, so yes, that top one is horrible form.

Lol, I was just testing jjiskyline's theory. I usually use for my line breaks. My HTML is really sloppy anyways. I use the right code, but I find myself not using the enter or tab keys.

Last edited by chanmanpartyman (2012-06-04 16:29:50)

jvvg · 2012-06-04 18:15:48

chanmanpartyman wrote:
jvvg wrote:
That bottom one is valid in XHTML (if you add doctype and xml namespace), but not in HTML 4 Strict.
Also, you have to open a tag before closing it, so yes, that top one is horrible form.
Lol, I was just testing jjiskyline's theory. I usually use for my line breaks. My HTML is really sloppy anyways. I use the right code, but I find myself not using the enter or tab keys.

For it to be valid, you don't need to do any of that. For valid XHTML, you just need to close all of your tags and a bunch of other stuff.

scimonster · 2012-06-05 08:58:01

jvvg wrote:
chanmanpartyman wrote:
jvvg wrote:
That bottom one is valid in XHTML (if you add doctype and xml namespace), but not in HTML 4 Strict.
Also, you have to open a tag before closing it, so yes, that top one is horrible form.
Lol, I was just testing jjiskyline's theory. I usually use for my line breaks. My HTML is really sloppy anyways. I use the right code, but I find myself not using the enter or tab keys.
For it to be valid, you don't need to do any of that. For valid XHTML, you just need to close all of your tags and a bunch of other stuff.

Such as proper nesting and quoting all attributes.

So that's why Firefox marks " " as an error when using an HTML4 DOCTYPE instead of XHTML...

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HTML errors on this site

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Re: HTML errors on this site

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