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Bug 1589 - Some pages are no longer valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional now that the fundraising item is at the top of every page.
Some pages are no longer valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional now that the fundraisin...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2005-02-25 13:12 UTC by Alex Brooks
Modified: 2005-12-03 15:47 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


Attachments
Firefox (works) (192.91 KB, image/png)
2005-02-25 21:27 UTC, Alex Brooks
Details
Internet Explorer (doesn't work) (196.41 KB, image/png)
2005-02-25 21:29 UTC, Alex Brooks
Details

Description Alex Brooks 2005-02-25 13:12:49 UTC
When I run the main page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page through the
w3c's validator the page fails the request.

See
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&No200=1&verbose=1

I also noticed this on the http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_servers page
for example.  It seems to be global.

The error returned on _every_ page is:

Line 28, column 34: there is no attribute "name"

<div id="siteNotice"><div name="fundraising" id="fundraising" style="margin-t

You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type
you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is
often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that
uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the
"target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as
"marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect
instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the
document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported
attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further
information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember
XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen
document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute.


It seems rather minor, but it would be a shame to break an otherwise standards
complient site with this one error.

Thanks, and have fun.
Comment 1 Alex Brooks 2005-02-25 21:25:27 UTC
Thanks for the quick reply Tom.  

Well, it works in Firefox, but in IE we have no border around the table.

I can see this becoming an anoying bug.

Attaching screenshots.
Comment 2 Alex Brooks 2005-02-25 21:27:15 UTC
Created attachment 314 [details]
Firefox (works)
Comment 3 Alex Brooks 2005-02-25 21:29:20 UTC
Created attachment 315 [details]
Internet Explorer (doesn't work)
Comment 4 Brion Vibber 2005-02-25 21:42:18 UTC
Looks like you just have an old cached style sheet or something; on 
ctrl+reload it came up with a border, and continues to do so. (IE 6.0, XPSP2)
Comment 5 Alex Brooks 2005-02-26 10:00:55 UTC
whoops!

Well dont I look like a plonker. (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/WikiSaurus:fool)

Thanks,

Comment 6 Alex Brooks 2005-02-26 10:12:39 UTC
Now the validator is showing up the same problems on Wiktionary, meta, Wikibooks
(wikibooks main page also has some other errors), Wikiquote, Wikispecies,
Wikinews, Wikisource, and Wikimeda Commons.

I have only run the check on English pages so far.

Wikibooks:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikibooks.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29&No200=1&verbose=1

Have fun coding.
Comment 7 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2005-12-03 15:47:26 UTC
Pages are valid now :)

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