Web validation issue

sujang

I have small questions. After firing up a site, I tried to validate(web) index.php but there was an error saying "document type does not allow element "b" here blabla...http://mydomain.com/vanilla/index.php">Sign In</a>)</div><b></b><div id...". I can not understand why those elements get inserted there. If I want to remove these "b"s, where should I have a look? And one more thing related to web validation. After activating Forum Statistics 0.45 extension, if I tick "View the Statistics" option with some list items (eg, Top Posting Users, Top Discussion Starter, Most Active Users, etc) unchecked, there appear some errors saying "end tag for element <li> which is not open...</a></b><br /></li></li></li></li></li></li>...". With all of the list items checked, it is OK. Not so serious but I would like to know why and how to fix. Thank you.

terrential2

i think there is an extra <li> tag in the statistics default.php file, it's simple to remove, but it might already have been removed in the latest version, have you updated?

sujang

Thank you, terrential2. I am using the latest version of Stastics. And I dont see any extra <li> tags in default.php.

jimw

Concerning the b tag, what extensions are activated and what style are you using?

sujang

Hi jimw, thank you for your concern. My Sys and Ext are as follows. Server Circumstances: Vanilla 1.1.2 on Mac OS 10.4.8 Apache 1.3 with mod_rewrite PHP 5.2.0 MySQL 5.0.27 Extensions : Attachments 2.1 / Category Jumper 1.0 / CategoryRoles 0.5 / Forced BBCode 0.1.0 / Forum Statistics 0.4.5 / Guest Post 1.4.1 / Guest Welcome Message 3.0 / Inline Images 1.3 / Invite Friends 0.3 / JQThickBox 1.1.3 / JQuery 1.1.4 / Members Page 1.2.1 / Multi File Upload 1.1 / Page Manager 2.4.3 / Sidepanel 1.0 / Signatures 1.0.1 / Transmogrifier 1.2 / Vanillacons 1.3 / Yellow Fade 0.1 Thank you, and I'd like to solve these problems, if possible. edit: I am using CategoryRoles theme, shifted from default vanilla.

jimw

Can you tell if the Sign-In that is referred to is the one in the Guest Welcome message or is it in the regular Sign-in?

I'm not familiar with the CategoryRoles theme. Is that something that is available after you activate that extension?

sujang

Thank you very much, jimw. I tested it with deactivating Guest Welcome Message, also tested changed to Vanilla default theme. But the result is same as I reported before. Thank you.

jimw

Can you please provide a link to your forum? Also try deactivating the BBCode extension.

terrential2

i think the 'b' tags are hardcoded into the extensions/stats/default.php, i changed mine: http://comclan.invision-gaming.co.uk/ (site is down atm, check it later!)

Max_B

The CategoryRoles does not add any markup on any page but the administrative tab for categories. Beside of this it is used to suppress posting controls here and there.

sujang

Many Thanks. @jimw : deactivating did not affect anything with this issue. Allright, I can provide a link, but all of the contents are in Korean and Japanese. So It can be a little inconvenient to you. @terrential2 : the b tag issue is not relevant to Statistics add-on, I think. @Max_B : I love your CategoryRoles, and I believe your theme is not related to this issue. Thank you all for you kindness.

sujang

jimw, I forgot to answer to your question [Can you tell if the Sign-In that is referred to is the one in the Guest Welcome message or is it in the regular Sign-in?] The b tag appears in the regular Sign In, and therefor it appears in every vanilla phps such as index.php, search.php, categories.php etc. Thank you.

sujang

I think I found the reason for additonal b tags. By deactivating Signatures Add-on I could pass the validation. I dont know about programming at all, but I can see a suspecting line in the default.php of Signatures add-on. function NoFunc(&$F) { echo('<b></b>'); } I dont know what these lines for, but I think it echos the b tags. Have a look, please.