- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:24:16 +0300
- To: kunda <kunda@internode.on.net>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
27.10.2011 3:29, kunda wrote: > Here's the validation link: > > http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2F6yrcw5c&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&ss=1&verbose=1 Thank you - it was a somewhat surprising way of showing the source but quite sufficient for identifying the issue. The issue is reproducible using the minimal document <!doctype html><title></title> <map name=m> <area alt=""> </map> It's the alt attribute that causes the error message about missing href. It is adequate to issue an error message on the basis of this: "If the area element has no href attribute, then the area represented by the element cannot be selected, and the alt attribute must be omitted." http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-map-element.html#the-area-element That's a way of saying that if the alt attribute is present, the href attribute must be present. The error message could be clearer, though. I've created the bug report http://bugzilla.validator.nu/show_bug.cgi?id=870 (which also addresses some other <area> issues). -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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