W3C Markup Validation Service

oldengine · October 1st, 2007, 05:59 PM

Maybe I'm beating my head on the wall with this, (or I just get into deep do-do too often) but I try to run all my web pages through the W3C validator and correct their html as needed to comply.

I have just run into a problem that might be overwhelming, at least to me. The problem here is that each element should close in the order that you open them. If a user puts both BOLD and ITALIC in an ad, you get a mixup.

From: showcat.tmpl

 text_here more_text 

Which should be:

 text_here more_text 

Since {$gallery['tagopen'][$x]} contains 
and {$gallery['tagclose'][$x]} contains 
instead of {$gallery['tagclose'][$x]} containing 
this order will never be correct.

If this is an easy correction, it's a HOW TO. If not, it's a suggestion.

Code:

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http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer

Chuck S · October 1st, 2007, 08:01 PM

I dont see anywhere where they are out of order in the code I would have to take a look at this.

oldengine · October 1st, 2007, 08:56 PM

I was going to be a smarty and post up an ad on http://www.reeftalk.com/classifieds/showcat.php/cat/2 but even though I clicked BOLD and ITALIC, I'm not sure that it went through that way.

Yep, here's the source off from your web page:
Note that opening of is within the first span group and the out of order closing is within the second span group.

Code:

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Needs to be:

 text_here 
 more_text 

Brain teaser!

Code:

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Chuck S · October 2nd, 2007, 10:08 AM

Exactly you are looking at the code where I am looking. I think the issue is only when using both. They sequence in alphabetical order. The only way to separate that is some way complex logic I need to think about here.

oldengine · October 2nd, 2007, 10:20 AM

Yes, it's only happening when BOTH italic and bold are called for.

I'm working this out. As I said before, if it's a mod, feel free to move it to the mods forum and if it's a suggestion, move it to the suggestion forum.

I now have it down to only 6 errors left. This whompped out over 200 errors on my showcat page...

showcat.php

Code:

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showcat.tmpl

Code:

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Remember that all of the showcat? templates will need to be changed. There are most likely better ways to do this, but I'm a hacker - not a coder.

Edit: Most of the remaining errors are because of my users placing an & in their text, which by code standards should be &

Chuck S · October 2nd, 2007, 05:48 PM

That might be the best way to do it rather simple check