Re: Experimental html5 validator bug?

2014-05-19 23:08, Piotr Halama wrote:

> I was checking this website
> <http://theirupb.byethost24.com/upb/viewtopic.php?id=1&t_id=1> (I know
> that code is horrible, but it is not imoprtant in this case)

It has 39 Errors and 3 warnings reported. In general, it helps to work 
out the problems sequentially, fixing all the errors you can handle, 
before addressing the tough parts. Quite often, fixing a simple error 
removes some cryptic errors as a side effect.

In this case, however, the problem is rather local:

> Experimental html5 validator should accept target="_blank" , but it display:
> /Line 77, Column 128/: No space between attributes.
>
> |…ofile.php?action=get&amp;id=1 target='*_*blank'><strong>Halamix2</strong></a> on…|

Line 77 in its entirety is

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<a href='profile.php?action=get&amp;id=1 
target='_blank'><strong>Halamix2</strong></a> on May 19, 2014 7:41:06 
pm</div>

The problem is that the href attribute value, in the <a ...> tag, has an 
opening single quote (') but no closing quote. Technically, this means 
that the first quote in target='_blank' is taken as ending the href 
value. This means that the data after it, _blank, is interpreted as 
starting the next attribute specification. This causes the syntax error, 
due to lack of whitespace between attribute specifications.

The fix is to add the closing quote:

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<a href='profile.php?action=get&amp;id=1' 
target='_blank'><strong>Halamix2</strong></a> on May 19, 2014 7:41:06 
pm</div>

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