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Adam
Adam

Reputation: 128

W3 Validator is give me an error for > at the end of my <a> tag in html 5

I'm running some code for a webpage through the W3 HTML5 validator and am getting the following error: 

3 Line 29 Column 346: Bad value Iinterior-lighting?f[O]field_design_style%3A169
for attribute href on element a: Illegal character in query:
not a URL code point.
..tapi-inactive id=facetapi-link--151>Unspecified (80)<span c].ass=”element-in...

The > tag closing the is the one that is causing the error. Here is the full line of code that is causing the error.

<div class="item-list"><ul class="facetapi-facetapi-checkbox-links facetapi-facet-field-design-style" id="facetapi-facet-search-apisearch-api-solr-index-block-field-design-style"><li class="leaf first"><a href="/interior-lighting?f[0]=field_design_style%3A169" rel="nofollow" class="facetapi-checkbox facetapi-inactive" id="facetapi-link--139">Unspecified (80)<span class="element-invisible"> Apply Unspecified filter </span></a></li>

Once again the thing that is causing the error is the > in the opening tag.

This looks right to me and I think it might just be an error with the validator. There are 175 errors just like it on this page.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 49

Answers (1)

Cthulhu
Cthulhu

Reputation: 1372

According to the RFC 3986,

A host identified by an Internet Protocol literal address, version 6 [RFC3513] or later, is distinguished by enclosing the IP literal within square brackets ("[" and "]"). This is the only place where square bracket characters are allowed in the URI syntax.

So you should encode square brackets in the url.

(Shamelessly stealed from this answer)

Upvotes: 2

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