Having trouble validating sidebar if no widgets are on

  • Resolved lunaz

    (@lunaz)


    13 years, 11 months ago

    https://lunaz.homelinux.net/~wpdemo/

    I’m trying to get valid xhtml 1.0 strict as much as possible, and it’s working right with widgets turned on, but if no widgets, I get errors.

    I read somewhere on here to put a UL tag outside everything to get the widgets to validate, that worked.

    Now turning off widgets I get:

    Error Line 222, Column 4: document type does not allow element "h2" here; assuming missing "li" start-tag

<h2>Archives</h2>

Error Line 241, Column 5: end tag for "li" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified

</ul></div>

You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".
Info Line 222, Column 1: start tag was here

    Here’s my sidebar.php

    <ul class="ul-wrapper">
<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && function_exists('wp_nav_menu') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>

<h2>Archives</h2>
<ul class="li_archives">
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>

<h2>Meta</h2>
<ul class="li_reg">
<li><?php wp_register(); ?></li>
</ul>

<ul class="li_loginout">
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
</ul>

<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
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  • Thread Starter lunaz

    (@lunaz)

    According to the theme checker I need to put this in:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>

    instead of a hard coded strict doctype from the w3. NOw I get even more errors trying to validate. The documentation here has no solution for validating XHTML? What do I do?

    OK got this working instead, passes validation and theme checker

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
<head>

    Still having issues with getting sidebar to validate…

    The theme checker doesn’t insist on an HTM5 DOCTYPE. Only that you don’t hardcode the <html> attributes. Try using:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?> xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    check into the error:
    Error Line 222, Column 4: document type does not allow element "h2" here; assuming missing "li" start-tag

    li tag is missing. After < ul > tag, < li > will be next, not < h2 >.

    check this code, this will be okey:

    <ul class="ul-wrapper">
	<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && function_exists('wp_nav_menu') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>

        <li>
            <h2>Archives</h2>
            <ul class="li_archives">
            <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
            </ul>
        </li>

        <li>
            <h2>Meta</h2>
            <ul class="li_reg">
            <li><?php wp_register(); ?></li>
            </ul>
        </li>

        <li>
            <ul class="li_loginout">
            <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
            </ul>
        </li>

    <?php endif; ?>
</ul>
    Thread Starter lunaz

    (@lunaz)

    YES IT WORKS!!! <3 Thanks much! ??
    3/3 resolved, this is a nice forum.

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