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Recent Comments widget duplicate IDs

  • mbrailer

    (@mbrailer)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    I use the Recent Comments widget in two places on my website: the sidebar and footer. When I validate my site with validator.w3.org, among the errors is “Duplicate ID: recentcomments.”

    Would it be practical to redesign the widget so that it adds a number to each incidence of the ID to make it unique?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Does the error goes away if you momentarily switched to the default theme (Twenty Nineteen) with ALL plugins deactivated?

    Joy

    (@joyously)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Well, the widget itself has a number added. But the inner ul has an ID, not sure why.
    Could you write a ticket for this? (search to see if it exists already)
    https://core.trac.wordpress.org/

    Thread Starter mbrailer

    (@mbrailer)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    t-p, good suggestion. I put my site in troubleshooting mode (all plugins off, default theme) and the Recent Comments widget still has <ul id="recentcomments">

    As an experiment, I added the Recent Comments widget to the footer a second time. Both incidents of the widget had <ul id="recentcomments">

    Thanks to Joy for pointing out the numbering in the widget. I’ll take your advice and see if this is already reported.

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