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  • Sysop9001
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2005
    • 254
    • 3.8.x
    #1

    Markup Validation Service

    Hello,
    The New "Markup Validation Service" does not validate now all board that in the past are XHTML Transitional, looks here for example:

    HTML Code:
    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vbulletin.com%2Fforum%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0


    Don't think is the case to add in the future version of vBulletin the
    dir="ltr"
    element?
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    • Wayne Luke
      vBulletin Technical Support Lead
      • Aug 2000
      • 74170
      #2
      Should post this in the project tools as a bug.
      Translations provided by Google.

      Wayne Luke
      The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
      vBulletin 5 API

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        • MRGTB
          Senior Member
          • May 2005
          • 5454
          #3
          Well spotted

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            • slappy
              Senior Member
              • Apr 2003
              • 1206
              #4
              Actually, you are mistaken. The problem is not the "inclusion" of dir="ltr" (which stands for "text direction= left-to-right"); it is the "absence" of: xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" which causes the "incompatibility."

              These statements validate "correctly":

              <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en">

              or

              <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
              <html dir="ltr" lang="en">
              <head>

              and comes from the statement at the top of the FORUMHOME template being changed from:

              $stylevar[htmldoctype]
              <html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
              <head>

              to:

              $stylevar[htmldoctype]
              <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
              <head>

              or

              <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
              <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
              $stylevar[htmldoctype]
              <html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
              <head>

              or a change in the $stylevar[htmldoctype] definition of the templates.



              Regards,
              Last edited by slappy; Sat 4 Aug '07, 6:51am.
              Slappy

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