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1. tin68
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I have a WordPress 2.1 setup with sidebar widgets.

   The Akismet sidebar widgets seems not to be XHTML valid code:

    Below are the results of checking this document for XML well-formedness and validity.
   
      1. Error Line 261 column 114: document type does not allow element "div" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag.
   
         ...smet.com" title=""><div id="akismet1"><span id="akismetcount">805</span> <spa
   
         The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which you've placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you've forgotten to close a previous element.
   
         One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a block-level element (such as "<p>" or "<table>") inside an inline element (such as "<a>", "<span>", or "<font>").
   
      2. Error Line 261 column 218: document type does not allow element "div" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag.
   
         ...ntare</span></div> <div id="akismet2"><span id="akismetbb">blockiert von</spa
   
   

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Huh. You're absolutely correct. The Akismet widget is not valid XHTML. You can see they do this:

   <div id="akismetwrap"><div id="akismetstats">
   <a id="aka" href="http://akismet.com" title="">
   <div id="akismet1">
   ...
   </div>
   <div id="akismet2">
   ...
   </div>
   </a>
   </div></div>

   That's invalid. You cannot put a DIV into an Anchor. Anchor's can only contain inline elements, DIV is a block level element. They can either try to change those divs into a span (could be tricky, they're styling them both) or they can move the anchor to inside the divs (probably easier, have to duplicate the anchor though).

   I've submitted a ticket to the bugtracker at wp-plugins about this issue.

3. tin68
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks for your answer. Seems to be an old bug - found an other discussion in wordpress.com from 12-Dez-06.

4. tin68
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I changed line 602 in akismet.php to

   <div id="akismetwrap"><div id="akismetstats"><a id="aka" href="http://akismet.com" title=""><span id="akismet1"><span id="akismetcount"><?php echo $count; ?></span> <span id="akismetsc"><?php _e('spam comments') ?></span></span> <span id="akismet2"><span id="akismetbb"><?php _e('blocked by') ?></span><br /><span id="akismeta">Akismet</span></span></a></div></div>

   and it works fine now.

5. rpetty
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Tin68, I modified my akismet.php per the code provided. It works great. This appears different than code I saw you post on another thread. I cannot find that thread for the life of me, but thought you might want to update that old post.

6. Sparrowhawk
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Akismet widget 2.0.2 still not XHTML valid.

7. fergbrain
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Akismet v. 2.1.3 is also not XHTML valid

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