Title: html5 validity
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# html5 validity

 *  Resolved [Peter Massey-Plantinga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pwp2/)
 * (@pwp2)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-validity/)
 * The subscriptions.php file spits out a widget that is invalid in w3c html5.
 * The following simple changes on line 584-585 would fix them:
 * `<a name="subscribe-blog"></a>` is obsolete, the id attribute on the next line
   does the same thing in every modern browser. It can just be removed.
 * `<form action="" ...` empty actions are not allowed in html5, so changing the
   action to “.” which is valid in both html4 and html5 would fix it.
 * Thanks for your consideration.
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 *  Plugin Contributor [Sheri Grey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designsimply/)
 * (@designsimply)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-validity/#post-3156322)
 * Thanks for the report. I’ve submitted a patch to fix those things.
 *  Thread Starter [Peter Massey-Plantinga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pwp2/)
 * (@pwp2)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-validity/#post-3156324)
 * Thanks so much!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Sheri Grey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designsimply/)
 * (@designsimply)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-validity/#post-3156332)
 * The Jetpack developers put that update through. You will start to see it working
   in Jetpack 2.0.1 as soon as it is released.
 * Here is the related changeset:
    [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/627135](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/627135)
 *  Thread Starter [Peter Massey-Plantinga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pwp2/)
 * (@pwp2)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-validity/#post-3156333)
 * Appreciated. Unfortunately, it seems as though instead of removing the `<a name
   =...>` that I was referring to, the developers have changed the “name” to “id”
   on this element, which creates a different problem: there is now a duplicate 
   id. The form which immediately follows this anchor has the same id. I suppose
   the easiest fix would just be to remove the id on either tag.
 * Thanks for your help.

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## Tags

 * [html5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html5/)
 * [subscriptions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subscriptions/)
 * [W3C](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/w3c/)

 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Peter Massey-Plantinga](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pwp2/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html5-validity/#post-3156333)
 * Status: resolved