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Re: CSS Validator Parse Error

From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 01:06:31 +0200
To: George J-B <geo_jb_95@hotmail.co.uk>, "www-validator-css@w3.org" <www-validator-css@w3.org>
Message-ID: <569586F7.3020606@cs.tut.fi>
11.1.2016, 0:58, George J-B wrote:

> I've been using the W3 CSS Validator and for some reason it won't
> validate my CSS due to a parse error.
> The exact message is "Parse Error  height466px.

I think you should include the exact CSS code that triggers the message.

> The validator states that a curly brace { is causing the parse error
> however I have removed the entire rule and re-written it multiple times
> and the validator throws up the same error for the same line of my CSS
> every time

What entire rule? In which context?

 > I can only assume it is detected some sort of invisible
> character or illegal UTF-8 character

That’s possible (though there are no “illegal UTF-8 characters”, just 
byte sequences that do not represent any character in UTF-8 encoding).

This is why an *exact* copy of (hopefully minimized) CSS code is needed 
for the analysis.

Yucca
Received on Tuesday, 12 January 2016 23:07:02 UTC

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