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- Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:47:19 +0000
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http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14732 Summary: some quotes are not shown when showing part of code containing errors Product: Validator Version: HEAD Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: critical Priority: P2 Component: check AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org ReportedBy: matteosistisette@gmail.com QAContact: www-validator-cvs@w3.org I am validating a page that contains: <label for="username">Usuario</label> This is correctly triggering a validation error because I have no form element with that name. However, when the error message is shown, it reads: Line 41, Column 24: The for attribute of the label element must refer to a form control. <label for="username>Usuario</label> NOTE the absence of the closing quotes. This is very confusing because one at first thinks that the missing quotes ARE the error. However, if I copy and paste the error message, I find out that the quotes are actually there!!! So it must be some issue in the stylesheet (probably related to highlighting in red the character just next to them) that somehow makes the " character invisible. Note that I've marked this bug as "critical" (I may even say this is a blocker). The very purpose of validation is spotting errors. If the mere displaying of an error introduces extra errors that are not in the code being validated, you cannot trust what you're reading, you end up having to discriminate real errors by yourself and hence the whole validator becomes useless. -- Configure bugmail: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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