Title: Core CSS Issue
Last modified: March 11, 2025

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# Core CSS Issue

 *  [Riley Smith Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rileysmithrsd/)
 * (@rileysmithrsd)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/core-css-issue/)
 * tl;dr
   It appears that wordpress core is not generating some semicolons in the
   css which can cause rendering issues.
 * When reviewing a few websites I run, I noticed that some elements will randomly
   getting wrapped in a <b> element. I initially thought this was an issue with 
   the theme builder I was using and posted on their forum. They advised me that
   this happens when there’s an opening tag missing a closing tag somewhere and 
   provided [https://validator.w3.org/](https://validator.w3.org/) to check. Looking
   at all of my sites, I saw the following:
 * ![](https://wordpress.org/ff41631c-5ae5-4807-8302-f1783ca492f8)
 * The line and column number may differ, but the issue was the same. Looking into
   the css further, I saw that there were a number of properties that were missing
   a semicolon, always the last property of an element:
 * ![](https://wordpress.org/9576bc3a-df85-4d8c-a9d3-4ffe7243cf3d)
 * As you can see, this issue appears on the wordpress.org site as well. I checked
   a number of other wordpress sites around the internet and found the same issue.
   The way I know this is an issue is because this isn’t the case with all css files
   on the same site:
 * ![](https://wordpress.org/7b93e39e-a6ad-47ed-b691-f31f52d94e1b)
 * I’ve tested this on multiple fresh installs, local and cloud hosting. No plugins,
   default theme.

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/core-css-issue/#post-18354050)
 * I can’t see anything you meant to show, only empty spaces. If you included screenshots
   in your post, note that the forum does not support direct uploads: you’ll need
   to upload your images elsewhere and insert the image URLs instead: [https://wordpress.org/support/forum-user-guide/block-editor/#adding-screenshots](https://wordpress.org/support/forum-user-guide/block-editor/#adding-screenshots)
 * And please provide a live URL so we can test the specific issue you’re reporting.
 *  Thread Starter [Riley Smith Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rileysmithrsd/)
 * (@rileysmithrsd)
 * [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/core-css-issue/#post-18354194)
 * I apologise, I thought my images attached fine. In order:
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/LMTcZWo)
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/4xWmAeq)
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/MjtyXww)
 * I’ve found this on all wordpress sites, woocommerce.com, wordpress.org, etc
 * I’m not sure how large of an issue this is or can be, but since I’m seeing it
   on every wordpress site, I figured it might be worth bringing to someone’s attention.

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## Tags

 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Riley Smith Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rileysmithrsd/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/core-css-issue/#post-18354194)
 * Status: not resolved

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