Last modified: 2010-05-24 19:40:54 UTC
In the HTML source of pages on Wikipedia, I currently see this for section editing links: [<a href=" /w/index.php?title=Longest_word_in_English&action=edit&section=1"> edit</a>] Notice the newline between the opening <a> tag and the word "edit". Firefox renders this newline as a space. This is a trivial thing, but it looks really ugly. :) I couldn't reproduce the problem myself. I've already checked to see that the newline isn't in [[MediaWiki:Editsection]]; it isn't.
Probably a tidy issue.
(In reply to comment #1) > Probably a tidy issue. And it's also tidy that produces "warning" notices when doing XHTML validation on this. ;)
Changed summary to reflect that the problem occurs with the rel, title and id attributes, in addition to href. Also, it seems to occur in most <a> tags, not just the edit links. If tidy can't be reconfigured or fixed, the problem could be avoided/reduced by doing more line-breaks in code, as the issue seems to be that tidy favours inserting line-breaks within the attribute value just after the opening quotation mark instead of before the <a> tag (if there is already leading white-space) or between attributes within the tag. From http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.7 , it seems that browsers should strip leading white-space from attribute values, so the reported Firefox rendering and the tidy notifications could be wrong?
(In reply to comment #3) >... > From http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.7 , it seems that browsers should strip > leading white-space from attribute values, so the reported Firefox rendering and > the tidy notifications could be wrong? See also http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_5 : "Avoid line breaks and multiple white space characters within attribute values. These are handled inconsistently by user agents."
Has the problem been fixed? Tidy recently got reconfigured to not wrap lines automatically.
[[en:Longest word in English]] now generates [<a href="/w/index.php?title=Longest_word_in_English&action=edit&section=1" title="Longest word in English">edit</a>]
