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Failed w3c markup validation


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paulie

Community Member, 5 Posts

20 December 2008 at 5:16am

I have a basic installation of Silverstripe. I have added two pages. The site seems to fail validation though. When I look at the code in the HTML view, the tag that is supposed to be closed without having been opened (/p), is not there.

It is present in the source code of the page that is rendered by the browser, but i cant find it anywhere else.

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Line 54, Column 2445: end tag for element "P" which is not open.
…" ></a> </td></tr></tbody></table></p>
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This </p> is not in the file that is included above or below this line.

Also, why does the site doc type read as html 4 and not xhtml ?

I dont see how I can fix this, nor anyone else for that matter but though id post here just in case.

Thanks

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Liam

Community Member, 470 Posts

20 December 2008 at 8:29am

There must be an error in the html somewhere in one of the template files, or possibly in the content field in the admin section. Are you using a pre made theme or custom? The closing </p> tag must be stuck in there somewhere.

As for the doctype being rewritten, this is SilverStripe's doing and can be disabled in your config file by adding ContentNegotiator::disable(); to it.

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paulie

Community Member, 5 Posts

20 December 2008 at 12:00pm

Thanks for your help. It was a pre built template called Higher Ground. The site now validates to xhtml 1.1 standards. The </p> tag error disappeared when i removed the <p></p> surrounding $content in templates/layout/page.ss; :-)