HTML Validation fail – invalid duplicate element

  • Resolved wykananda

    (@wykananda)


    1 year, 8 months ago

    Hi there. Thanks for your great plugin!

    One thing though…our page is failing html validation due to the presence of multiple <main> elements. Our main theme/content is the correct holder of the tag and WPSearch seems to be the offender.

    According to https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_main.asp and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/main, there should only be one use of the <main> tag in a document with the (generally frowned upon) exception that you can have more if the the “hidden” attribute is set on any others. Additionally, according to the official docs, the <main> tag is specifically designated to represent the dominant content of the document which is, of course, not the case with WPSearch’s use.

    Besides causing validation to fail, this incorrect duplicated <main> tag could also lead to hard to track down errors.

    Can <main> simply be replaced with a <div>?

    Kind regards.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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