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Baffled by empty <head> section

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ambient

Community Member, 130 Posts

25 June 2011 at 7:11am

Hi all, I have a very curious issue and I'm absolutely stumped as to why its happening

When I check my site using firebug it shows the head section as empty and the code from it in the body section??? With 2 empty paragraphs that are not in my Page.ss

When I try to validate on w3c it says "No DOCTYPE found, and unknown root element. Aborting validation" and "No XML declaration (e.g <?xml version="1.0"?>) " but they are both in my Page.ss.

I'm very confused by this and hope someone can help. Thanks for listening :)

This is what shows in Firebug
<html lang="en">

<base href="http://mysite.com/">
<title>mysite | About</title>
<meta content="SilverStripe - http://silverstripe.org" name="generator">
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-type">

<base href="http://mysite.com/preview/">

<meta content="noindex, nofollow" name="robots">

And this is what my Page.ss looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >
<head>
<% base_tag %>
$MetaTags

<% require themedCSS(screen) %> 

</head>
<body>
<div id="container">

Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

25 June 2011 at 2:13pm

Edited: 25/06/2011 2:14pm

Is the final site using your Page.ss some other template? I would recommend against using the xml header now and using an HTML5 doctype.

ambient

Community Member, 130 Posts

25 June 2011 at 11:25pm

Edited: 25/06/2011 11:47pm

Oh dear, Hi Will,
I just found two paragraph tags at the top of my Home.php page.
I can't believe it. Don't know how I managed to put them there or why I couldn't find them yesterday when I did a sitewide search.

Anyhoo, sorry for the fuss, rest assured my face is red.

Thanks for the help.

mrProper

Community Member, 10 Posts

7 November 2011 at 5:18am

Edited: 07/11/2011 5:20am

Hi guys,
I got the same problem as described above with the difference I haven't empty paragraphs in my Page.php
Here is my Page.php

<?php
class Page extends SiteTree {

	public static $db = array(
	);

	public static $has_one = array(
	);
	
	function getAboutLink() {
		$menulink = parent::get_by_link('about')->Link();
		return $menulink;
	}
	
	function getBuyLink() {
		$menulink = parent::get_by_link('buy')->Link();
		return $menulink;
	}

}
class Page_Controller extends ContentController {

	public static $allowed_actions = array (
	);

	public function init() {
		parent::init();

		// Note: you should use SS template require tags inside your templates 
		// instead of putting Requirements calls here.  However these are 
		// included so that our older themes still work
		Requirements::javascript('http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6/jquery.min.js');
		Requirements::javascript('mysite/javascript/cufon-yui.js');
		Requirements::javascript('mysite/javascript/Myriad_Pro_400.font.js');
		Requirements::javascript('mysite/javascript/m-a.js');
	}
	
}

Here is templates/Page.ss:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html lang="$ContentLocale">
	<head>
		<% base_tag %>
		<title><% if MetaTitle %>$MetaTitle<% else %>$Title<% end_if %> &raquo; $SiteConfig.Title</title>
		$MetaTags(false)
		<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
		
		<% require themedCSS(bootstrap) %>
		<% require themedCSS(layout) %>
		
		<!--[if lt IE 9]>
			<style type="text/css">
			 @import url(themes/macslaw/css/ie.css);
			</style> 
		<![endif]-->
	</head>
	<body>
	
		<div class="wrapper">
		<!-- Begin Header -->
			<% include TopHeader %>
			<div class="clearfloats"><!-- --></div>
			<% include MainHeader %>
			<div class="clearfloats"><!-- --></div>
		<!-- End Header -->
		<!-- Begin announce-head -->
			<% include AnnounceHeadInner %>
			<div class="clearfloats"><!-- --></div>
		<!-- End announce-head -->
		<!-- Begin Content -->
			$Layout
		<!-- End Content -->
		<!-- Begin Footer -->
			<% include Footer %>
		<!-- End Footer -->
		</div>
		
	</body>
</html>

and templates/Layout/Page.ss:

<div class="main-content" id="main-content">
	<div class="container">
		<div class="row">
			<!-- Begin top row -->
			<div class="span17 columns round-box gradientV soft-info" id="soft-info">
				<div class="soft-info-header">
					<h3>$Title</h3>
				</div>
				<div class="soft-info-body">
					$Content
				</div>
				
			</div>
			
			<!-- End top row -->
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

I attach the console from Chrome with the page structure where can see that the head tags are in the begining of the body.
I'm very confused and I lost many hours in research of this "effect". The bigger problem is that in the begining of the <body> tag stays empty string " " which brokes the frontend.

Can anybody help?

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mrProper

Community Member, 10 Posts

7 November 2011 at 9:41pm

I found where the problem is!
It was in the encoding of the source files - SS source files are in ANSI, but my template files - UTF8. Made them equal solves the problem.

Hope this helps somebody.

Terry-C

Community Member, 2 Posts

9 November 2011 at 8:07am

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If there is a better place for us to post this type of message to recruit developers, please do let us know...

Many thanks
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