How to validate “<i></i>”?

  • xerocool

    (@xerocool)


    21 years, 4 months ago

    In my post, I had:

    <i>Our data center (Internap, the same one we’ve been at for many years) lost all its power, including redundant backup power, for some unknown reason. (unknown to me, at least) We’re currently dealing with bringing our 100+ servers back online. Not fun. We’re not happy about this. Sorry… :-/ More details later.

    Update #1, 7:35 pm PST: we’re up on ‘dirty’ power for now (it works, but it’s unreliable), and we’re working to assess the state of the databases. The worst thing we could do right now is rush the site up in an unreliable state. We’re checking all the hardware and data, making sure everything’s consistent. Where it’s not, we’ll be restoring from recent backups and replaying all the changes since that time, to get to the current point in time, but in good shape. We’ll be providing more technical details later, for those curious, on the power failure (when we learn more), the database details, and the recovery process. For now, please be patient. We’ll be working all weekend on this if we have to.</i>

    It didnt validate and all my tags are correct and closed. Whats wrong? Said I had to add /> instead of > but I do not.

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  • NuclearMoose

    (@nuclearmoose)

    21 years, 4 months ago

    Link?

    navid

    (@navid)

    21 years, 4 months ago

    <i> has been depreciated. You should use <em> instead.

    Thread Starter xerocool

    (@xerocool)

    21 years, 4 months ago

    I fixed it. Problem was the enter button…I had to do back slashes and then insert
    to go to the next line instead of pressing enter 2 times.

    NuclearMoose

    (@nuclearmoose)

    21 years, 4 months ago

    I’m not sure if <i> is deprecated. Check out this from a recent CommunityMX article:

    <i> (for italic) and<b>(for bold) are presentational elements: they tell the browser how certain content should look, not what its meaning is. Luckily, we have two semantic elements we can use instead: <em> and <strong>.

    So, I *think* that the way XeroCool used <i> in this way is actually semantically correct. <em> is for emphasis, and it just happens that most browser render it in italics.

    Thread Starter xerocool

    (@xerocool)

    21 years, 4 months ago

    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fr0x0rz.info%2F

    Help please. 🙁

    Line 269, column 386: end tag for element “i” which is not open

    …hing which has angered many users.</i>

    It actually is opened:

    [i]eXeem, the P2P-based BitTorrent distribution program, is likely to be released for the first time within the next week, Neowin understands. In a notice on the homepage of the former Suprnova torrents site, the program’s creators say the first public beta is due for release next week.[/i]

    And bbcode doesn’t matter btw, Tried both ways.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years, 4 months ago

    Look at the validator.

    Use ‘View Source’
    You are mixing tags. <em> and </i> will produces errors.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    21 years, 4 months ago

    Try <em> </em> instead of <i> </i>, as mentioned above.

    Thread Starter xerocool

    (@xerocool)

    21 years, 4 months ago

    I got it fixed guys. I had to insert <i></i> before I put in

    because and the italic tags got mixed.

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