Title: Validating in W3C
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Validating in W3C

 *  [thegh0sts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thegh0sts/)
 * (@thegh0sts)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-in-w3c/)
 * I get the following errors:
 * “Bad value generator for attribute rel on element a: The string generator is 
   not a registered keyword or absolute URL.”
 * and
 * “Bad value designer for attribute rel on element a: The string designer is not
   a registered keyword or absolute URL.”
 * Can I delete the respective rel=”xxxx” and still be ok within WordPress?

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 *  [EMG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emg/)
 * (@emg)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-in-w3c/#post-4320497)
 * I found your question by searching for the same question here. 🙂
 * That said, I will post a link to another slightly older topic that addresses 
   this issue with a few forum and WordPress vets weighing in.
 * Ultimately, it’s your choice to either keep or change it, but keeping it is not
   necessarily a bad thing at all… even if it means the site will be a sure-fail
   for validation.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/rel-category-tag?replies=6](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/rel-category-tag?replies=6)
 * Cheers!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [EMG](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emg/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/validating-in-w3c/#post-4320497)
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