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| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #12 | 431794_Tabs_HTML_validation_errors.patch | 647 bytes | smoothify |
| #10 | #431794_Tabs_HTML_validation_errors.patch | 647 bytes | smoothify |
Comments
Comment #1
grigori commentedyes, I have the same problem, I am doing my final year project and validation on the page i used panels is not 1.0 xhtml strict
Greg
Comment #2
merlinofchaos commentedPanels 2 is no longer available and is unsupported. Marking all Panels 2 issues won't fix.
Comment #3
nancydruActually, this was reported against the wrong version. As of a few seconds ago, Panels 2 is still available and supported on 5.x according to the project page.
Comment #4
merlinofchaos commentedIn that case, this doesn't contain nearly enough information to do anything about.
That said, I don't think anybody is currently maintaining Panels 2 for Drupal 5, so yes it's still available but I don't think there's anyone to look at the issues. :/
Comment #5
nancydruWhat more information do you need? The generated output is there as well as the text of the message from the HTML Validator. I will try to gather whatever it takes for "nobody" to fix.
Comment #6
merlinofchaos commentedWell, to start with, what generated it? I don't recognize the class="fragment" at all. Now that I think about it, it looks like some javascripty tabs code that's screwing up, which Panels doesn't provide at all. Perhaps this is panels tabs module?
But, see, a proper bug report would've told me what kind of panel this is, what panes were in it, and what the settings were, which is why more information is needed. A module maintainer shouldn't have to try to guess these things from context. For one, we'll guess wrong as often as we guess right, and debug the wrong problem.
Comment #7
nancydruYes, we do use the Panel Tabs module, so maybe this should be transferred to that queue.
Comment #8
merlinofchaos commentedComment #9
wim leersThis is probably an issue in the D6 branch as well.
Comment #10
smoothify commentedI'm moving this to the tabs queue as this is where the problem lies.
I have attached a patch that simply trims any leading spaces from the tab_name so they are not replaced with a hyphen.
There is a similar issue with accented characters which points to a filtering process being needed.
#715042: Tab title beginning with an accented character causes an XHTML validation error
Comment #11
smoothify commentedchanging title.
Comment #12
smoothify commenteddoh, lets add a patch that can actually be downloaded :)