Title: role= XHTML Parms
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# role= XHTML Parms

 *  Resolved [rarpsl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rarpsl/)
 * (@rarpsl)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-xhtml-parms/)
 * I have just installed WordPress and I notice that some of the XHTML tags are 
   using a parameter role=”value” which is not a valid XHTML value. In fact when
   you click on the “Valid XHTML” link, it sends you to the W3C Validation Site 
   which complains about this issue. Is this anything to worry about and what is
   the purpose of this parameter? Is it a proprietary tag that WP creates and uses(
   and thus can be ignored)?
 * Thank You.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-xhtml-parms/#post-1353561)
 * It’s a minor validation issue that is highly unlikely to impact on your site 
   or its visitors but I appreciate that it can be annoying when you’re trying to
   aim for a valid site. It’s not a proprietary tag – simply one that isn’t in the
   XHTML 1.0 specification although it is valid on HTML5 pages.
 *  Thread Starter [rarpsl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rarpsl/)
 * (@rarpsl)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-xhtml-parms/#post-1353703)
 * ESMI –
 * Thank you for your reply and information on the significance of this tag parameter.
   As you guessed, I like having my sites valid and try to make sure that I am not
   playing Russian Roulette with Tag Soup. As it is, I do not like that my XHTML
   must be served as text/html in lieu of being flagged as an XML form (since among
   other reasons, IE does not support XHTML if not served as text/html).

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## Tags

 * [invalid](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/invalid/)
 * [role](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/role/)
 * [xhtml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xhtml/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [rarpsl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rarpsl/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/role-xhtml-parms/#post-1353703)
 * Status: resolved

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