W3C Validation

krumz

Hello,

I'm just curious if those that create templates ever use the W3C Validation Service? Just curious as I check and get many Warnings for things like Viewport Values, unnecessary attribution types, spaces before end closing tags etc.

I also get many errors for unclosed div tags, bad values for google fonts, "width: device-width;" not being an actual width, etc.

Thanks.

saguaros

Hi krumz

May I know which template are you using? and kindly share the testing results with errors as you mentioned so I can check with team.

Regards

krumz

saguaros At the moment we are using the JA Simpli template but I have noticed these errors and warnings on other templates.

saguaros

krumz Thanks for sharing, I will forward to dev team for further checking on this template.

krumz

saguaros thank you but as I mentioned I have noticed this with many other templates.

kars

saguaros There are many errors with most ALL JA templates. I have often wondered why the dev team is not QC'ing their work.

kars

Also, it should really start here with JA T4 Blank - which is the basis of all right? There are currently 11 warnings and 10 hard errors on the homepage alone. https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Ft4-framework.demo.joomlart.com%2F

I've never mentioned it because I would find it hard to believe the dev team is unaware. They should in my opinion invest some time in quality checking. Thus, anytime we utilize these templates we are delivering projects to clients with errors out of the box. Reflects bad on all.

Manit

Hi kars
Thank your and we really appriciate your productive feedback, I also checked the issue and so far, the main issue is the role attribute is not well defined, I worked with both test team and developer team to fix this for the next version update.

Regards.

gordenbro1

Hey there,

So I'm learning Javascript currently (HTML and CSS my last semester) in my Computer Science class and my professor always has us validate our HTML/CSS through the W3C validation system.

While I have no problem doing this and fixing errors, I don't understand as to why it marks, in my eyes, perfectly fine code as wrong?

For instance: I have some line breaks within an unordered list because it gives space between my lines in a left column navigation table (I had a much better idea in mind, but we're required to do at least a two column website, so I just made a column for my nav) which, to my eyes, give it a better appearance. Yet, it marks the line breaks as wrong. It states, "Element br not allowed as child of element ul in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)" can someone explain to me the reasoning?

I certainly don't want to be writing bad code, but it never seems to explain why my code is shit... it just tells me it's bad and I'm bad for writing it. Metal Folding Chairs Manufacturer

saguaros

Hi gordenbro1

When you test with W3C validation tool, it also gives hints for how to fix these kinds of errors. You can make a quick search as there are topics discussing the same.

Regards